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!
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5 comments:

Jeff said...
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1:18 PM, January 27, 2014
Jeff said...

I've heard of a 15 minute rejection from either Science or Nature.

1:18 PM, January 27, 2014
Mason said...

Then I'll definitely need to work harder.

3:01 PM, January 27, 2014
Zifnab said...

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.

10:52 PM, January 27, 2014
Mason said...

Z: Well, as long as the decisions are no worse than the ones that actual editors make... ;)

12:26 AM, January 28, 2014

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