Questions on rejecting or being rejected, as relates to a manuscript, graduate school application, dissertation, or other academic endeavor.
Questions tagged [rejection]
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A reviewer rejected my paper stating that in my work a significant amount of text was from other publications. Am I allowed to argue back?
I received a rejection of my paper. It was a simple case report of 750 words of a very rare disease.
After almost two months of no-answer, I wrote a polite mail to the editorial board asking how much time it would take to receive an answer from the…
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What do reviewers mean by "broad readership" when rejecting paper?
Our paper was rejected multiple times; several months later, another group published similar results in Nature. Though some details were different, the main logic and key points of the research were the same.
A reviewer of our paper said our work…
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Rejection because the paper is too specialised
I submitted a manuscript into a (maths) journal a while ago. Today I received a decision e-mail saying that they have to reject my paper because it is too specialised for their journal. I belive this is fine after 1-2 weeks of receiving my…
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Paper rejection
Recently, one of my papers was rejected from a prestigious journal published by a well known publishing house. I received two reports. Both of them made the same MISTAKE by claiming that I assumed a restrictive condition (which was assumed only in…
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Why are "discretionary" desk rejections generally implemented when they are an obvious bias loophole?
To be clear I am not referring to out of scope, incorrect formatting or language quality rejections which are mostly detected by junior editing staff and a reasonable explanation is usually supplied in the rejection letter. I am referring to desk…
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