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FirmAI seeks to get academic and industry research and opinions into the mainstream. Two platforms targeted for this purpose are GitHub and Medium. FirmAI’s authors are selected based on the quality of their research they produce, their expertise in an area of interest, and their previous involvement in open source projects. The publication is add-free and entirely funded through GitHub and other grassroot sponsorships. Every year five authors would be awarded with an annual medium membership.
The FirmAI publication aims to produce high quality slow streaming content. Authors are individually approached based on their publication record and the interest factor of their work. The publication would be an original publication looking at practical and useful applications and theories from academia and industry. We are looking for the best researchers to propose up-to-date content, focused on the intersection of computer science, data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence and ethics with business.
We make use of a rolling editor and reviewer model. Our editors all have advanced degrees and work in a range of professional and academic institutions. As it stands we have five propsective reviewers and editors who collectively have professionally reviewed articles for or have published in IEEE Computation Intelligence Magazine, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Portfolio Management, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and the European Journal of Operations Research.
Every article would go through a thorough review process before the article is scheduled for publication. After every submission the expectation is at most two rounds of reviews. Publishing in FirmAI will enable you to reach a broader audience and earn money through the Medium Partner Program if that so interests you. You also remain the only owner of your work, in accordance with the Medium Terms of Service, which you agree to when signing up for a Medium account. You will be able to edit or delete your article at any moment, even after we have published it. The feedback our editors and community provide to you will appear at the relevant place in your article. You will be able to dismiss or respond to them.
Every year five authors would be awarded with an annual medium membership. This award would go to the authors whose ratio of predicted level of views (by two reviewers at the start) to actual number of views is the highest. To us this is testament to a low click-bait article that has gone unnoticed. Earnings are also based on the amount of time member’s spend reading authors’ articles, this diminishes the incentive for clickbait articles.
- Write an article that you want to read.
- Have a short title, and a longer subtitle.
- It should be no more than 1/2 of the length of an original research article.
- Use the appropriate tags for readers to find you.
- There has to be an element of interactiveness.
- We propose an article length of 2,500 to 5,500 words (8-20 minutes)
- Equations allowed for instructive purposes.
- This is a visual medium and should be treated as such.
- Have your work read over by a professional proofreader.
- Write approachably somewhere between an business magazine and a journal paper.
- Your conclusion should be to the point and not promotional.
- APA 6th referencing style is expected from all contributors.
- Present the necessary code as embedded GitHub gists.
- We do not allow ads or sponsored content.
- You should only add up to two social media links.
Before submitting your article, there are a few essential things you need to know. Make sure you read each point well, and that you understand them, as by submitting an article to FirmAI, you are agreeing to comply with all of them.
- Medium’s Rules and Terms of Service apply to FirmAI as it is a Medium publication. Make sure you read it before submitting your article.
- As explained in Medium’s Terms of Service, you own the rights to the content you create and post on Medium and therefore FirmAI. You’re also responsible for the content you post. This means you assume all risks related to it, including someone else’s reliance on its accuracy, or claims relating to intellectual property or other legal rights.
- We have adopted Medium’s Content Guidelines and Medium’s Curation Guidelines for every article we publish. This means that if your post isn’t of a high enough quality to be curated or doesn’t follow the guidelines, we won’t publish it on FirmAI regardless of how much time you have spent.
- You can edit and remove your article from our publication at any time.
- We verify unsupported claims and attempt to detect plagiarism.
- We might directly edit your content to correct basic spelling mistakes and update minimal formatting. With any other form of editing we will make contact with you first. Also, we might remove images where the source isn’t clearly stated. Copyright violation is a real thing and could happen to you. It is your responsibility to ensure you own or have a legal right to use, all content, images, and videos you include in your articles.
- We can remove any articles you post on FirmAI for any reason. If we do so, your content will not be lost but still hosted on Medium.com and redirected there.
- If our editorial team finds one or more violations of our rules, we can remove you and all of your articles from our publication and report them to Medium.
If you feel, your work alligns with the publication, get in touch by opening an issue on the top left corner or by emailing, d.snow (at) firmai (dot) org
Viewership success varies based on topic, length, and title and social media posts. Within the first month you will get about 30% of your overall annual views. Example 1A is one week old, Example 3B is one month old, Example 2A is six months old.
