Timeline for Can one reuse positive referee reports if paper ends up being rejected?
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| Dec 29, 2020 at 21:30 | vote | accept | Hercule Poirot | ||
| Dec 29, 2020 at 16:19 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd Trimble | ||
| Dec 29, 2020 at 13:20 | comment | added | Gordon Royle | When I was a journal editor, I would be absolutely delighted if the author indicated that I could get a referee report without having to pester half a dozen (or more) people who are apparently too busy to even answer emails. I was realistic about the status of our journal, so knowing that the paper had been rejected from another journal would not a priori be a problem. It would not necessarily affect the final decision but it would speed things up. | |
| Dec 29, 2020 at 12:56 | comment | added | JoshuaZ | @Kostya_I That seems ethically substantially more questionable. | |
| Dec 29, 2020 at 10:44 | comment | added | Kostya_I | A slightly more interesting question is: suppose I received two reports, one positive and one negative, can I inform the editors of the Journal Y only of the former? | |
| Dec 29, 2020 at 10:33 | answer | added | YCor | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 29, 2020 at 10:26 | history | edited | YCor |
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| Dec 29, 2020 at 5:39 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Dec 29, 2020 at 2:17 | comment | added | JoshuaZ | @YemonChoi I agree there may be enough to make sense here. I'm not suggesting migration but rather posting there also. | |
| Dec 29, 2020 at 2:11 | answer | added | Steven Landsburg | timeline score: 9 | |
| Dec 29, 2020 at 1:50 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | Commenting since this is only anecdotal rather than from experience as an editor: quite a long time ago, I had an article rejected from journal J despite a positive referee report, where something in the editor's wording indicated that it was just a case of "no room at the inn". At a friend's suggestion, I submitted to a lower-level journal Q whose editor was a colleague of the one at J, and managed somehow to make both aware that there was a referee report that could be re-used. The article was accepted in Q, not immediately but quickly enough that I'm sure they did re-use the referee report | |
| Dec 29, 2020 at 1:45 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | @JoshuaZ I think that some of the norms/expectations in maths may be different to other fields and hence am happy for the question to remain here rather than on academia.SE (but I have no strong feeling) | |
| Dec 29, 2020 at 1:41 | comment | added | Terry Tao | There are a few journal pairs $X_1,X_2$ (e.g., Forum of Math, Pi and Forum of Math, Sigma [disclosure: I am an editor at these two journals]) in which a paper which is rejected for $X_1$ but with decent reports can be recommended instead for $X_2$ without having to go through the refereeing process again. | |
| Dec 28, 2020 at 22:53 | comment | added | Steven Landsburg | I have long wanted to start a journal with no refereeing and just one rule: Along with your paper, you must submit the referee reports showing that your paper was almost, but not quite, accepted at one of the top five journals. All submissions that comply with the rules are automatically accepted. | |
| Dec 28, 2020 at 22:06 | comment | added | JoshuaZ | This question may be not just math specific and so may get some good answers also if posted to academia.stackexchange. | |
| Dec 28, 2020 at 21:49 | answer | added | Carlo Beenakker | timeline score: 25 | |
| Dec 28, 2020 at 21:38 | history | asked | Hercule Poirot | CC BY-SA 4.0 |