Timeline for When a journal doesn't give your work a fair chance [closed]
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| Dec 7, 2018 at 6:54 | comment | added | user92646 | I have seen so many journals rejected papers with extremely positive reports. The situation is, the paper was firstly handle by co-editors, then the editor-in-chief will judge whether the paper should be accepted. In my opinion, things should be changed. Probably, the editor-in-chief should review the paper briefly after the co-editor agrees to handle it. | |
| Dec 7, 2018 at 6:51 | comment | added | user92646 | I have a similar experience on the DUKE. After a long time of waiting, the editor told me that "this interesting paper should certainly be published, however, we have received too many excellent, so, we have to make hard decisions". Well, I am fine with rejection. However, I had been waiting for a very long time, almost a year without any referee report. Moreover, they said, "it took so long because we just moved our office..." but they kept publishing papers in that year, which is unbelievable. If they don't like my paper, then they should have rejected it sooner, why wasted my time. | |
| Feb 20, 2016 at 4:38 | answer | added | Denis Hirschfeldt | timeline score: 13 | |
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| Feb 20, 2016 at 4:33 | comment | added | Ryan Budney | Regarding contesting an editor's decision, I think sometimes there are good reasons. For example, one of my papers was rejected at a journal. The editor sent the referee report to me and it was clear the referee was talking about a paper completely unrelated to my own. I pointed this out to the editor, the paper was promptly refereed and accepted. | |
| Feb 20, 2016 at 3:01 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | As Yogi Berra might have said if he were a mathematician, "If the editor doesn't want to publish your paper, nobody's gonna stop 'em." Starting fresh with a new journal would seem much more promising than arguing with an editor who evidently, for some reason, doesn't like your paper. | |
| Feb 20, 2016 at 2:49 | answer | added | Alexandre Eremenko | timeline score: 11 | |
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| Feb 20, 2016 at 1:49 | comment | added | Lev Borisov | As far as (4) goes, this is probably the most annoying situation. However, the editor is typically not in a position to resolve scientific disputes and has to go with the referee report. So it is not surprising that appeals to the editor fall on deaf ears. | |
| Feb 20, 2016 at 1:47 | comment | added | Lev Borisov | Regarding (2): this is a decision of an editor, which is likely rather uninformed and is based on a superficial reading of the paper. I have made such decisions and must have been wrong a certain percentage of the time. However, it just needs to happen if the volume of submissions far exceeds the journal's capacity. Hopefully, such a backlog rejection happens quickly, so a paper can be sent to another journal. | |
| Feb 20, 2016 at 1:47 | comment | added | David Roberts♦ | See my question academia.stackexchange.com/questions/58097/… | |
| Feb 20, 2016 at 0:56 | comment | added | James | ..and if the journal loses out, it'll be the journal that will have a harder time getting a job / grants / tenure and it'll be the journal's family that suffers. | |
| Feb 20, 2016 at 0:18 | comment | added | Gerald Edgar | When your paper is rejected, do not bother contesting the decision. Instead, send it to another journal. If it is a great paper, then it is the journal that loses by this, not you. | |
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| Feb 20, 2016 at 0:15 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | I was referring to "However, even keeping this in mind, I can't help but feel that occasional my work doesn't get a fair shake." | |
| Feb 20, 2016 at 0:10 | comment | added | James | What point of view is that? | |
| Feb 20, 2016 at 0:06 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | I sympathise with the frustrations, but I relly don't think MO is the place to post what is essentially an attempt to elicit support for a point of view. A blog post and discussion would surely be better | |
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