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Measuring High-Growth High-Technology Entrepreneurship Ecosystems (view source)
Revision as of 18:20, 7 December 2020
, 18:20, 7 December 2020→RP Constraints
====RP Constraints====
Although no-one has asked me to, I need to cut down the length of the paper. RP asks for a maximum word count of 8,000-10,000, though does allow exceptions. Using pdftotext and wc, or doing a count in the tex file, it looks like I'm up near 17k. However, both approaches drastically inflate the total with table entries, TeX commands, etc. I expect the current true count is closer to 14k15k. I need to get it down to at most 12k.
A different way of coming at the problem is to say that I'm using 12pt font with 1" margins and one-half line spacing (as implemented using \onehalfspacing in LaTeX, which [https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/65849/confusion-onehalfspacing-vs-spacing-vs-word-vs-the-world isn't the same as 1.5 spacing in word]). AER restricts to 40 pages using this format[https://eml.berkeley.edu//~sdellavi/wp/pagelimits12-12-11.pdf], and Management Science restricts to 32 pages[https://pubsonline.informs.org/page/mnsc/submission-guidelines]. With averages of perhaps 15 words per line and 32 lines per page, this would give just shy of 500 words per page, making 10k words, 20 pages of dense text, and perhaps 30 pages with figures, tables, quotes, headings, definitions, etc.
