Phooey

[rebeccmeister]

I had hoped enough time had passed to suggest the leafcutter manuscript had made it out for review. Desk-reject again. I think this is the fourth rejection from this particular journal. So, back to the drawing board. The thing that most greatly annoys me is seeing other, more sloppy work published there. Phooey.

The norovirus, if that's what this is, got worse yesterday and last night, not better. At least there hasn't been any vomiting (yet). I now have a receptacle handy, just in case.

Comments

[annikusrex]

who is doing the rejecting at the desk? do they have to give reasons like peer reviewers do? boooo.

[rebeccmeister]

One of the editors, and all they have to say is, "Blah blah we are an important journal with lots of submissions, and your paper isn't important enough."

I was kind of pessimistic about submitting to this journal anyway, but my advisor wanted to try, so I shrugged my shoulders, rolled up my sleeves, and did. A benefit of having done so is I still think it's well-written, so after some reformatting we should be able to resubmit it elsewhere relatively quickly. If we'd received reviews, we would need to make revisions according to the reviews before resubmitting it, even if we resubmitted it to a different journal.

[annikusrex]

Gotcha. Dispiriting, but I hope the paper finds a better home!

[rebeccmeister]

Thanks! On a certain level, I at least get to mutter to myself, "I was right!" because I initially had my doubts about going after this top-tier journal. Experience tells me that doing so unnecessarily drags out the publication process, and I can't really afford that kind of time and effort.

[ivy]

Now you know, at least... silver-lining to have your judgment validated.

[rebeccmeister]

Yeah, it's true. And maybe in the future I'll manage to argue my points more persuasively. On the other hand, this isn't the first time I've run up against this with my PhD advisor, so part of me just feels like I just need to wrap up work with her and move on to working with other people who have more realistic outlooks.

[bluepapercup]

OK Rebecca's guts, TIME TO BE BETTER.