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Is it normal for journal reviewers to reject submissions based on non-scientific reasoning? [closed]
Is it normal for reviewers to use nonfactual statements as reasons to reject journal submissions? Here, nonfactual statements will be defined as statements that are in contradiction with verified ...
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What does this mean when I submitted the revised manuscript (the decison is minor revision )? [duplicate]
I have submitted a manuscript to IEEE TRANS Journal.
After rounds of revisions, I have gone through the major revision, minor revision, and minor revision.
I have just submitted the revised manuscript ...
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Should you ever pick "recommended" or "opposed" reviewers for journal submissions in social science?
This question applies to all disciplines but I am curious here about social science journals in particular. Is it ever a good idea to name/identify specific reviewers that you would like to have them ...
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Status of a manuscript whose required reviews are completed
I have submitted a paper to a good math journal in first week of May 2024. After a month (+ a week at most), the online system shows the status “Required reviews completed”. However, to this day, I ...
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Is there a limit to the number of times a journal editor will send my paper for review if referees keep declining?
I submitted a paper to Physical Review D, an APS journal, approximately a month ago. So far, the editor has forwarded my paper to six referees for review, all of whom have declined. I suspect this may ...
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Not proud of work, should I allow submission?
One of the students in a research group I worked with years ago has picked up my old work and is trying to get it published, but I am not proud of the quality of work. The paper is based on a ...
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I forgot to remove all authors' names from the appendix for a double-blind journal submission. What are the potential consequences?
I submitted a paper to a double-blind peer-reviewed journal. Unfortunately, I noticed that we forgot to remove the authors' names from the appendix. The submission was very recent, and until now, only ...
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Does Elsevier inform authors (or corresponding author) once they received the payment for Article Publishing Charge (APC) for open access?
I have submitted a manuscript to a fully open access journal in Elsevier and they accepted it after several revision rounds. However, after acceptance I received an invoice and I submitted it to my ...
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Should I ask permission from my former PI after finishing my contract when I'm sole author of the paper?
I'm a postdoc and I worked with a PI with whom I had many issues and disagreement. I even went to HR to report him for breaking the law. He told me to write the paper by myself as a single author. ...
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Whether to upload a conference paper?
I am going to a (large) conference this summer, and participants are expected to upload their papers so the chair, the discussant and the conference-goers can read them beforehand. Today, I received ...
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Paper rejected because it did not fit the scope of a journal
I recently finished my paper and I submitted it to a journal. A few days later, I got a response from the editor saying that my manuscript had been rejected because it did not fit the scope of the ...
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Are journals interested in reviews of books that are several years old? [closed]
It seems that most book reviews are published within a year of the publication of the book. I assume that the more recent the book, the more interested a journal will be in publishing a review. But at ...
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My supervisor is promoting my work (that I think has flaws) everywhere - what to do?
I am in a situation that might seems a bit odd. I published my research work in a pretty good journal. However, I believe that peer review wasn’t very strict (in my opinion). And this work is ...
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Review not needed after review
After reviewing a paper 1 month ago, I received the following email:
"It has since become clear that I will not need you to review the submitted manuscript at this time."
Has anyone ...
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What happens if two reviewers have incompatible recommendations for a paper?
I submitted a paper to an IOP journal (classical and quantum gravity) two or three months back and two reviewers were assigned. One of them was ok with the paper and recommended it for publication but ...
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