Timeline for Are there any positives/negatives in this rejection email ? or, it is just a desk rejection?
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| Oct 9, 2020 at 23:49 | comment | added | Philosopher of science | @carlo Another great point. | |
| Oct 9, 2020 at 19:10 | comment | added | carlo | I would love to publish on Science, which is not at all a specialized journal | |
| Oct 9, 2020 at 12:30 | comment | added | Philosopher of science | @glougloubarbaki Yes, good point. | |
| Oct 9, 2020 at 12:27 | comment | added | Albert | I mean a wide portion of the journal's intended audience, i.e. in this case researchers in mathematics. A prestigious and non-specialized journal will probably not consider publishing a paper that is only of interest to a very specialized audience, as opposed to a stronger result that is relevant to a wider community. For instance, the resolution of Fermat's conjecture is interesting a much wider audience than number theorists, but there are papers in number theory that are only interesting to a small fraction of all number theorists. | |
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| Oct 9, 2020 at 12:20 | comment | added | Philosopher of science | @glougloubarbaki "Wide audience" is relative, and, I think, not that important. On one extreme, 99% of academic peer-reviewed publications are not interesting to the general public. On the opposite extreme, many of the most prestigious work in science is only understandable by a handful of people. | |
| Oct 9, 2020 at 12:16 | comment | added | Albert | Being "too specialized" here likely means that it's just not that interesting, except to maybe a few people. Not being interesting to a wide audience is not a positive thing. | |
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| Oct 9, 2020 at 11:14 | history | answered | Philosopher of science | CC BY-SA 4.0 |