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Is it normal for journal reviewers to reject submissions based on non-scientific reasoning?
Without addressing the details of your submission, I would like to point out a few details of a functioning review process.
First, reviews are always an educated opinion of peers, hence the term 'peer ...
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Is it normal for journal reviewers to reject submissions based on non-scientific reasoning?
No, it is not normal. Usually reviewers are experts in the general area in which they review, and they should be familiar with textbook material. So, first of all, consider the possibility that you ...
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Is it normal for journal reviewers to reject submissions based on non-scientific reasoning?
In short your papers can and will be rejected for every possible reason you can imagine, fair and unfair, true and false, scientific and unscientific. I've had paper rejected in all these ...
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Is it normal for journal reviewers to reject submissions based on non-scientific reasoning?
I think this question is difficult to answer without knowing what the exact disagreement is. After having seen hundreds, perhaps thousands, of reviews, I've never seen a reviewer espouse crankery. ...
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Is it normal for journal reviewers to reject submissions based on non-scientific reasoning?
I'll answer the title of the post: "Is it normal for journal reviewers to reject submissions based on non-scientific reasoning?"
Empirically, no, it isn't. As editor-in-chief of a ...
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Is it normal for journal reviewers to reject submissions based on non-scientific reasoning?
In my experience it is not uncommon for reviewers to state wrong claims in their reviews. My submissions received the following criticism from reviewers:
Manuscript claims X, but X is wrong, so ...
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Should you ever pick "recommended" or "opposed" reviewers for journal submissions in social science?
I'll leave aside the question of "suggested reviewers" which seems a bit different and assume the author(s) get to make recommendations from a list.
There are many reasons for "...
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Almost 14 months after submission the associate editor informed me they still did not start with the review process
Unfortunately, publishing is fraught with a lot of incompetence, which is condoned. I think the correct answer is to say yes but to probe for more from the journal than a mere apology. This type of ...
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Status of a manuscript whose required reviews are completed
It's worth pointing out that the status changes whenever all required reviews are completed, not when all reviews solicited have arrived. For example, if your journal only needs one review per paper, ...
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Is there a limit to the number of times a journal editor will send my paper for review if referees keep declining?
Editor here. There's a point where if everyone you ask declines to review the paper, you come to conclude that one of two possibilities must be the case: (i) the people you asked looked at the paper ...
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Is there a limit to the number of times a journal editor will send my paper for review if referees keep declining?
From my experience as editor, six reviewers declining to review is by no means a large number. The problem is exaggerated if the journals requires two reviews (I don't know about the practice at Phys ...
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Status of a manuscript whose required reviews are completed
I suspect that the editor in charge is either yet unaware of this or is too busy. Alternatively, the review(s) may not be sufficiently helpful. In any case, the editor should act and change the status....
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Not proud of work, should I allow submission?
I do not want to be seen as a hurdle to collaboration by turning down publication or forfeiting authorship.
Given the situation you described, I recommend you rethink the option of forfeiting ...
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Validating Journals: by checking publishers or indexing database?
A publisher website with very little contact information is a massive red flag, potentially indicative of [predatory-publishing] practices. There are predatory organizations who will "hijack"...
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Submission of a manuscript to two special issues of the same journal
Assuming it is the same journal, you might want
to contact the editor and ask how to proceed, similar to what you did here.
submit it to one special issue and mention in the submission process that ...
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Submission of a manuscript to two special issues of the same journal
Most (all?) reputable journals strongly (strongly) frown on duplicate submissions. Among other things, you waste the time of both editors and reviewers of at least one of them. I strongly suggest not ...
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Which recognized mathematical journal accepts submissions in Chinese language
Unfortunately, I'm unaware of any reputable math research journal, with an international reputation, which accepts papers in Chinese. Moreover, I don't recall having ever seen (in English-language ...
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Which recognized mathematical journal accepts submissions in Chinese language
If you are interested in open access journals specifically, DOAJ has great tools for searching for those that accept articles for a given language:
This link lists those for mathematics journals with ...
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Register to 2 conferences at almost the same time with the same talk abstract/paper
There are archival and non-archival conferences. (Extended) abstracts in the former count as publications, while presenting at a non-archival conferences is not immediately associated with a ...
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I forgot to remove all authors' names from the appendix for a double-blind journal submission. What are the potential consequences?
Most editors will find this understandable. Your best bet is to contact the editor ASAP and explain the situation and give them a copy with the relevant redactions.
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Does Elsevier inform authors (or corresponding author) once they received the payment for Article Publishing Charge (APC) for open access?
Send an e-mail asking for a confirmation that they received the money. Close it with "if I don't receive any news from you on this matter, I will consider the payment issue settled." Ask for ...
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Should I ask permission from my former PI after finishing my contract when I'm sole author of the paper?
In my opinion it is best to confirm, especially if all you have is a verbal agreement, I would get it on the record via email (if you already have that, then that is fine).
Further to that, you may ...
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Should I ask permission from my former PI after finishing my contract when I'm sole author of the paper?
From what you say, you already have his "permission" to publish as a sole author or otherwise exclude him. From what you say, you are ethically the sole author of the paper in its current ...
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Whether to upload a conference paper?
I would guess that it doesn't really matter unless you discuss things in the paper but anticipate filing a patent (especially in the US, where the rules have changed). Either uploading for conference ...
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Paper rejected because it did not fit the scope of a journal
We can definitely exclude a lack of appropriate reviewers because you wrote this in your description:
I recently finished my paper and I submitted it to a journal. A few days later, I got a response ...
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What is the proper way to submit a "response" paper without offending the one I am responding to?
You're doing the right thing in wanting to alert the person in advance. What I prefer to do, and something I have appreciated when it's been done to me, is to send the person in question a draft of ...
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What is the proper way to submit a "response" paper without offending the one I am responding to?
First, understand you risk upsetting the other author regardless of reality (you might be on-base or off-base with your viewpoint and that does not matter, some people are more prone to holding ...
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What is the proper way to submit a "response" paper without offending the one I am responding to?
To try to improve a bit on the answer of ChellCPlus, let me suggest that you make your comments about the paper, its methodology and conclusions, and not about the author(s).
Say something like "...
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What is the proper way to submit a "response" paper without offending the one I am responding to?
Don't be confrontational or accusatory
Just state clearly and professionally your concerns regarding their paper, don't let emotions get the better of you.
But, at the same time try to offer some ...
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Are journals interested in reviews of books that are several years old?
It would probably take special circumstances for it to be "interesting" to a publisher, such as fresh interest in the book, or, at least, the topic of the book. This might be the case in a ...
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