My name is Mason Porter. I am a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at UCLA. Previously I was Professor of Nonlinear and Complex Systems in the Mathematical Institute at University of Oxford. I was also a Tutorial Fellow of Somerville College.
Monday, January 27, 2014
A New Rejection Record!
Fastest. Rejection. Ever. (I wonder if this is a new world record?)
Today, Nature Communications desk-rejected our paper 2 hours and 1 minute after we submitted it.
OUCH!
I can see it now: "The science behind breaking the world record for scientific paper rejection", a discussion of the necessary components to build a microsecond filtering system on the publisher side to perform extremely fast scanning and filtering of incoming article submissions.
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ReplyDeleteI've heard of a 15 minute rejection from either Science or Nature.
ReplyDeleteThen I'll definitely need to work harder.
ReplyDeleteI can see it now: "The science behind breaking the world record for scientific paper rejection", a discussion of the necessary components to build a microsecond filtering system on the publisher side to perform extremely fast scanning and filtering of incoming article submissions.
ReplyDeleteZ: Well, as long as the decisions are no worse than the ones that actual editors make... ;)
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