Timeline for How to publish a paper that does not seem to be within the scope of any journal?
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| Mar 1, 2016 at 22:23 | comment | added | Significance | If you really can't find another suitable journal, you might try appealing to the editor of the first journal. Explain that you tried the sister journal and what they said. Clearly explain (because perhaps understanding the maths is part of the hurdle) the implications of your work and why it should be of interest to the journal's readers. Ask permission to resubmit. I've had success with this approach myself. Otherwise, there is always PLoS ONE, which considers "all sound science" to be in scope. | |
| Jan 16, 2016 at 22:48 | comment | added | Javier Arias | Maybe I should add that if people contact me privately via chat or so (I guess that function it possible here), I might entertain the option of sending them a copy of the paper, so that they can get a better grasp and eventually help.... | |
| Jan 16, 2016 at 19:06 | comment | added | Javier Arias | @TobiasKildetoft I just want to get it published, because I render it valuable as it is. That is independent from my plans in other academic domains or in life. The journals I sent the paper to were linguistic, albeit one of them more focused on so-called mathematical linguistics (which is still linguistics, and not maths). | |
| Jan 16, 2016 at 18:51 | comment | added | Tobias Kildetoft | @JavierArias I think you need to stop thinking in these terms about the people who review your paper. If you send it to a journal whose audience is mainly mathematical, I think you will have no chance to ever get it accepted, unless you spend a lot of time getting more familiar with how math is done at this level (this is based on reading your questions on MSE). This is something that will take a lot of time, but will eventually be a very valuable thing for you if you plan to do work that intersects with math. | |
| Jan 16, 2016 at 11:22 | comment | added | Javier Arias | I am waiting two weeks or so to see if that Professor expert in Zellig Harris may help publish it in an upcoming book. If not, I guess I will try it to submit it once more and then put it on Arxiv. I am not paying 1500 dollars for publishing my work. It is enough not to be paid for publications so as to then shift to paying for them. I am not rich and am not doing that. | |
| Jan 16, 2016 at 11:16 | comment | added | Javier Arias | I will wait to see what this Professor might stir up for the paper to be published in a monography or so. I am certainly not paying anything for publishing, that is for sure. | |
| Jan 16, 2016 at 10:59 | comment | added | Benoît Kloeckner | @JavierArias: point is, quality does need the right person to be recognized. If your paper did not end up in the right hand in the previous submission, it may do in later ones. I agree that some habits are frustrating, but there is little point reworking the whole world compared to take concrete action, such as resubmit. By the way, the suggestion to send to PLoS ONE might be very good, as they are precisely designed to try avoid the pitfall you are in (among other things), but you will have to pay 1500$ or ask a waiver. | |
| Jan 16, 2016 at 10:37 | comment | added | Javier Arias | @BenoîtKloeckner I know my paper has quality (the eventual flaws which some reviewer might report would be stuff which can be easily corrected). So the point is that I am astarting to look at those people as smart asses blocking anything they do not have any idea about, just to keep their egos high..... | |
| Jan 16, 2016 at 10:06 | comment | added | Benoît Kloeckner | To enforce the "persistence" aspect further: I did need 4 consecutive submissions once to get a (quite nice in my opinion) paper published, and if I remember half a dozen for another which was interdisciplinary (math+eco). There is more randomness in the process than the answers you got may indicate. | |
| Jan 15, 2016 at 20:49 | comment | added | Javier Arias | Well, I guess the most reasonable thing to do is to wait one or two weeks to see if that Professor expert on Zellig Harris can find a venue for the paper. If it does not pan out, then I guess I will upload it in the Arxiv. The paper is half math half linguistics, I would say, and is relevant for both kinds of audience (assuming one is open-minded enough to approach it bias-free).Let us see..... | |
| Jan 15, 2016 at 20:29 | comment | added | Kimball | @JavierArias For your paper? I don't know about being "counterproductive" but it might not be appropriate if it's more a linguistics paper than a math paper. (We put ours on the arXiv, but our paper was just a math paper.) It's also possible that journals in fields without an arXiv culture may not want to publish something posted on a preprint server. | |
| Jan 15, 2016 at 20:03 | comment | added | Javier Arias | Would it make sense to upload the text in Arxiv? Or would it be counterproductive? | |
| Jan 15, 2016 at 16:29 | history | answered | Kimball | CC BY-SA 3.0 |