A response to Mike Bender, If Maritime Historians Are in Danger of “being left with their journals and not much else” (Lewis Fischer), What Can Those Journals Tell Us About Ourselves? A Ten-Year Study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21664779 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hugh Murphy (0000-0002-5696-6272, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 581-588 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Northern Mariner / Le marin du nord (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1183-112X • E-ISSN: 2561-5467 |
| Publisher | York University Libraries (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.25071/2561-5467.1046 |
| OpenAlex | W4384694496 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
Robert not 'Ronald' Blyth) is getting there.I question the statistical validity of a comparison between a non-peer reviewed annual publication from 2009 to 2018 and three peer reviewed (two quarterly, one twice yearly) academic journals.Further, regarding the IJMH, the editorship has recently passed from the University of Hull to the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, so is no longer "British."In his article, Bender does not acknowledge the significance of the centenary issue of The Mariner's Mirror 97, no. 1 (2011), in which I (as hon.editor), published 22 articles in 398 pages from leading scholars (admittedly only one was female, Susan Rose), most of which were surveys of the state of the huge range of disciplines contained in Mariner's Mirror since its inception (including many of the areas Bender states are not published).I set the questions for each individual author and each article was peer reviewed.Of the 22 articles, only six were on naval history.Bender repeats the hoary old cliché that the Mariner's Mirror was too naval
Art · Left behind · Psychiatry · History · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |