Questions tagged [rejection]
Questions on rejecting or being rejected, as relates to a manuscript, graduate school application, dissertation, or other academic endeavor.
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Misreading of review by editor
I submitted a paper to a journal in pure mathematics and got a rejection mail 5 month afterwards, which essentially said that having two referee reports available they couldn't publish it. So I read ...
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Could a journal reject an article due to the style or quality of accompanying code?
I'm a student working on a doctoral thesis. We're working on a paper for which I've done most of the coding for the statistical analysis (the field is microbio/bioinformatics). I'm new to coding and ...
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Cannot publish my research as I am a sole author
I am a Dr in Statistic. At my PhD journey, I developed four new ideas. During my study, I tried to publish my first paper. Therefore, I sent it to three different high-quality journals. They all ...
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Split paper into two, one was accepted, is it fine to negotiate the rejected paper to be accepted?
I had a paper ready for journal publication, but decided to break it into 2 conference papers and submitted them to a conference.
Now, one of them is accepted but the other one is rejected! The thing ...
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Can a poor work history reduce your chances of acceptance into graduate school and/or later securing a tenure-track position? [closed]
In my last post (re: financial feasibility of grad. school), I mentioned having a poor work history (I'm 38 and haven't worked except for a few years of self-employment years ago), and some said that ...
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Can a graduate school change its decision, from rejection to acceptance?
I have heard stories that graduate schools revoke their offers because of various reasons, such as lying in the application and some other serious misconducts.
As the title suggests, can the ...
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“Editor invited” to “Decision in Process” [duplicate]
I submitted my paper to World Scientific journal for a week ago. The "Editor invited" status stayed since the submission, and then it changed to "Decision in Process" directly. It seems strange. ...
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Should I resubmit? [duplicate]
I received the following rejection letter from the journal editor. It does not look like “rejection and resubmission” to me. Should I revise and resubmit? Is there any chance of acceptance?
... I ...
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Master’s program rejection with no reason. How to appeal? [closed]
I recently applied for a master’s program and I fulfill all their requirements. In addition, the application fee was around 100 USD that had to be paid in advance. I got the following answer today:
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Rejection from a legitimate journal, with reviewers recommending me to try a Beall's list journal
Recently I received a rejection by the editor of SCI Expanded journal (which I consider to be a legitimate journal):
The reviewer's comments (just a few days after I submitted the manuscript):
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Should I refuse the invitation to review a paper which I recommended for rejection? What should I do if I suspected who wrote this paper?
1) I have been invited to review the revision of a paper that I recommended for rejection. I cannot see the updated paper before accepting or declining this second reviewing invitation.
Would it be ...
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Rejecting a offer after accepting it (PhD US - Europe) [duplicate]
I recently was offered a PhD position at a prestigious university in Europe (ETH), but the project is in a subject indirectly related to my field. I actually focused on applications mostly in the US, ...
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Can I include review scores in CV?
I have submitted a manuscript to a CS conference, and it was rejected but with decent scores given by the reviewers (just under the accept treshold). If I list the manuscript as a preprint in my CV, ...
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Will I get rejected because PI cannot show funding? [closed]
I applied to Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences for PhD program. I have talked with PI before submitting the application. I have 3.9 GPA from Master , 2 publications and one paper as ...
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Rejected an offer and then became interested (a bad decision I made)
Three months ago, a professor has offered to me a research position at his university with high salary, and I rejected it because I wanted to join a master's program. Unfortunately, I made a bad ...
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Short rejection after two years [closed]
I've submitted a short paper to a well-known cs journal. It got rejected after two years with the below one para explanation. While I admit that the submission was not strong, I feel cheated because ...
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Response to referee after rejection
I recently had a paper rejected: both referees pointed to a unique issue with our work. One referee's criticism was fair, hence I feel the rejection decision was fair.
The other referee however, ...
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What could be the reasons to be rejected as a Doctoral Candidate in Germany? [closed]
Referencing my question here and the multiple suggestions to ask here as well.
What could be the reasons for (so far) only getting rejections on my applications as Doctoral Candidate?
Are there ...
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Sending email to editor about reason of rejection of paper
My manuscript was rejected without sending to peer review, of course the editor whom I sent my paper is an expert in my field and he rejected it without any report. (it took one and half month with ...
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Awaiting EIC Decision for more than 1 month
I have submitted a paper in a journal's special issue. In the first notification, I got a major revision. After submitting the revision it goes through (awaiting for reviewer selection -> awaiting for ...
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Submitting a paper to a conference whose scientific committee includes an academic from a grad school you want to enroll
I am planning to submit my paper to an international conference. The level of the conference might be high considering my paper and for my academic background at the moment. My paper can fit in one of ...
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accepted, rejected, or requests for changes in special issue
Recently, I have gone through a special issue of a journal and in the special issue, in notification to the author section, it's mentioned that
Reviews returned to authors. Papers will be either ...
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Sharing referee/AE report online to point out a grievous error in refereeing
I submitted a short note to a math journal providing a counterexample to a result in literature that had first appeared in that very journal.
After eight months, I heard from the journal. It was a ...
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What does it mean when a paper is rejected but encourages resubmission without a suggestion of new experiments?
My paper has been rejected but encouraged re-submission. The reviewers were overall positive said it was well written and that all the analyses were correct. The problems pointed out were changes to ...
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Average rejection response time after a PhD interview [closed]
More than one week ago I had a PhD interview with a British university which probably has so many applicants on a rolling basis but I have not yet received the final result of my application. I wonder ...
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No response from Journal editor after misinformed rejection
I recently submitted an article to a journal, which was later rejected. But the grounds for rejection were completely unfounded.
Also, a few oddities stand out with regards to the rejection. ...
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What to do with repeated rejections for PhD position
Background:
I have been applying for a PhD in the last three years to more than 150 positions, very much specific to my skills and background. I only applied when I found positions' requirements ...
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Manuscript status changed immediately from “With the Editor” to “Decision in Process”
I submitted a manuscript in a journal (Springer) and after 3 days the status of my MS changed to "With the Editor" followed by "Decision in Process" after 5 days. My MS apparently did not undergo peer-...
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Australia: Research and Abysmal Grades
I recently completed a 3 year bachelor degree in Computer Science at an Australian university. I graduated with a GPA which is roughly the equivalent of a “C” in the US. I only blame the grades on my ...
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Dealing with a rejection from a journal
I am a post-doc in economics. I know that rejections are quite usual but I feel very sad (I think more than necessary) because of rejections.
For a paper on which I worked for four years, I got two ...
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How to manage imposter syndrome during the job hunt? [duplicate]
There are lots of questions on here about dealing with Imposter Syndrome throughout the whole Ph.D. experience. I have struggled with Imposter Syndrome throughout my whole Ph.D., but was able to ...
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Include rejected paper in Masters application?
Is including the manuscript of a rejected paper (without claiming that it has been published or mentioning any rejections) as a supporting document in my application ethical / would it in any way ...
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Rejection of papers after a long time [closed]
I have already submitted a manuscript to an outstanding math journal. It is under review for about 9 months. I would like to know about the probability of rejection of a paper after 9 months?
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Resubmitting a Paper to a Mathematics Journal After Questionable Rejection
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I have recently submitted a paper to a fairly prestigious journal in my subfield of mathematics, along with a co-author. I am a junior author, but my co-author is well-established.
It's not ...
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Rejection of a job offer in favor of another. Is it worth trying to fight back for the first one? [closed]
I have a problem - I am looking for a job and I was on one of the job interviews, which due to the type of this job(electronics constructor/designer) it was the "target" choice that I dreamed about. ...
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Citing a rejected paper in related work
A paper was uploaded to Arxiv that is very similar to my research. I cited it in the related work section of the paper I am currently working on. I was planning on noting the shortcomings of this ...
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How to interpret this rejection email from Journal of American Math Society? Anything to read between the lines?
I had submitted a paper manuscript to JAMS (J. of Amer. Math Soc) and recieved the following email 2 months after the submission. Can you help me interpret this email, as to what the situation is and ...
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How to force a journal to address an associate editor's scientific misconduct?
My manuscript, submitted to a high-rank and very respectable journal, has been rejected by a referee. From the referee's report one could make a conjecture that the referee is one of my competitors, ...
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Is this rejection rude? Should I apply to another position in the same University?
I applied for an adjunct position and never heard back from the school. I emailed them to learn about the status of my application and this is the response I received: Your resume is competitive but ...
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Is it OK to submit the same post-doctoral fellowship application two years in a row?
Last year, I submitted a post-doctoral fellowship application but didn't get it. This year, I thought about submitting basically the same research statement; slightly updated and refined, but having ...
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If a paper gets rejected two times (in two different journals) is that a bad impression if I try to submit in a different journal?
If a paper gets rejected two times (in two different journals) is that a bad impression if I try to submit in a different journal (different from the earlier two)?
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Etiquette on giving negative feedback on a top mathematician's work [closed]
I want to ask a more general question that relates to a renowned mathematician’s recent proposed proof of a famous hypothesis, which seems to be widely considered not even close to being correct – ...
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Offering of a grad class rescinded for incomprehensible reason
A course came up that I was interested in (C*algebras). It's a grad class but was offered to a select group of undergrads including myself. I accepted the offer but then once the class started I ...
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What does it mean when a paper gets rejected stating “poor typesetting” as one of the reasons?
What does it mean when a paper gets rejected stating "poor typesetting" as one of the reasons?
I downloaded a latex template of a journal and used it to write the paper.
When I submitted the paper to ...
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How do I handle plagiarism professionally and emotionally?
So I have been trying to get an article accepted since 2016. It is an article dedicated to a machine learning based prediction of a biological dataset. It was rejected 4 times. Today, on searching, I ...
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Why are “discretionary” desk rejections generally implemented when they are an obvious bias loophole? [closed]
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 ...
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Copyright and Plagairism Policy for Reviewers of a Rejected Paper
I've read today a paper about my research field that seems similar to my submission (rejected) to a conference. It includes ideas, some scientific elements, and concepts but is not exactly a word-to-...
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How common is it for journal to reject a solicited paper?
A guest editor at a peer-reviewed academic journal solicited me to write a paper. I initially hesitated for lack of time. But the editor's invitation was courteous. So I sent an abstract, which was ...
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What should I do if the admission committee has missed something in my application and rejected me?
I applied for a graduate program and I was rejected, but there is evidence suggesting that there was a mistake in reviewing my application. Now the school seems reluctant to reconsider the application....
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Shall I apply again after all my PhD applications are rejected?
I am 29. I've had informative, goal-driven, well written SOP, I'm guessing good recommendations. I have a masters in the related field (Computer Vision) with tier 2 publications. I'm in a research ...
