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Questions on rejecting or being rejected, as relates to a manuscript, graduate school application, dissertation, or other academic endeavor.

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Paper rejected. Should I appeal against biased reviews?

You seem to be conflating "Bias" and "Negativity". Bias would imply that your paper was being reviewed unfairly, either because of its content, or its authors - if they were known or divined by the re …
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Paper rejection due to being "correspondence": what does it mean?

Many journals publish correspondence or short reports that are brief research works, usually with a single finding, straightforward methods, and not much more than that. They are intended for quick, " …
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Abandoning vs. further pursuing a rejected paper?

However, given that I ultimately aim for an academic career, I think it might be worth some efforts to get something published. This alone makes me thing that it may be worth the effort - attempt …
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Are you permitted to forward the reviews from a rejected manuscript when submitting to a new...

And honestly, the transparency argument is a little bit of a non-starter unless you're also going to quote the reasons for the rejection of the paper. …
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Is "I don't have enough funding" the most popular phrase used as hint for rejection

It is likely an amalgam of the truth and a gentle let-down. It's a polite way to reject someone, in that it doesn't place the failure in the hands of the applicant. There's nothing you technically did …
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Why does editor reject when reviewers recommend acceptance?

I have a few potential scenarios in mind beyond just "They don't like you": As Peter Jansson said, reviewers usually get a space to address just the editor, rather than the author, and in those comm …
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What does "reject and resubmit" mean?

Each journal will have it's own fairly vague differences between different tiers of evaluation, but what the editor has described and "Reject and Resubmit" are exactly the same thing. Essentially, yo …
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Sending manuscript to a journal that rejected an earlier paper

Rejection doesn't even imply that you submitted to the wrong journal, or that the work wasn't worth trying to get in there - the vagaries of editorial discretion, publishing cycles, and reviewers mean …
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Editorial rejection: should I write back?

My friend has got such rejection from the same journal, he received exact same text, which means that it was simply copy pasted. … This is very likely true - journals get a substantial number of submissions, and for most actually tailoring their desk rejection emails would be overly burdensome, and likely not terribly productive. …
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