Timeline for Does emailing a journal to ask if my article is within scope hurt chances of getting published?
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| Mar 2, 2017 at 15:17 | comment | added | anonymous | -1 Don't "pitch" to journals. If you are worried that your manuscript is not within scope, email an editor with the abstract. Articles are not written the same way as books and you should not try and take lessons from one to the other. | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 14:50 | history | edited | aparente001 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 2, 2017 at 14:48 | comment | added | aparente001 | The difficulty here is convincing the journal that the paper is on topic. // Edited answer to correct misimpression. | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 8:45 | comment | added | jwg | I think this is bad advice. 'Pitching' as a form of advert for an as yet unseen paper does not seem either a good idea or necessary. Journals believe that they will accept any paper which is correct, on-topic and sufficiently interesting. Such a paper should sell itself rather than need to be sold. Similarly, getting someone well-connected to 'recommend consideration' may be counter-productive and should certainly not be needed. Journals review papers by unknown authors all the time. | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 6:56 | history | answered | aparente001 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |