Oh God, people, the stress I just experienced!
Do you remember this article of mine that was accepted in a very prestigious journal, which caused me so much joy? I was asked to send in the final version of the article by the end of March. So, obviously, I did. Normally, if I don’t get a confirmation, I start sending reminders to the journal’s editors. But to be honest, I was so intimidated by the important people at this specific journal that I couldn’t make myself pester them for a confirmation after sending in the article.
And what do you think?
I just received an email from the journal’s editor. He says with the utmost politeness that they still haven’t received the final version of my article. The articles have to be sent to the publisher in a week, the editor says, and they really don’t want to miss the opportunity to have my article among them.
The university server must have misfired and eaten my email with the article.
And on top of everything, I only saw this message from the kind editor by pure chance because it had been placed in the Spam box.
Of course, I wrote back immediately, attached the article and apologized profusely.
But just imagine, I could have missed the chance to see this article in print had the editor been less kind and accommodating. This is my most prestigious publication!
I was so stressed out that I threw my cell phone into the trash can by mistake.
The moral of the story: always request confirmations and don’t let big names intimidate you.
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If it’s any consolation, it might not have been your email at all, but a mistake on their side. This kind of stuff happens a lot: just recently I was asked by the main journal editor to send in all files (LaTeX, images and pdf) of my accepted article. Which I did, only to get an email from the technical editor yesterday that he only has the pdf and where are all the other files and I should send them asap or the publication will be delayed. So something clearly went wrong on their side, but no big deal, I just resent my email to the main editor to the tech editor and he acknowledged it and that was it.
Also, once the journal lost my article while it was under review (because I submitted to an editor, who was replaced shortly aftewards by another editor and things somehow got lost in the process) and I only found out after six months, after I enquired what is going on. To be fair, then they expedited the review of my article in the fastest possible way, but still, things like this happen on the journals’ side all the time.
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Thank you for the support! I just got an email from the editor confirming that they received the article I sent today. But the scare I went through. . . Jeez. I felt my blood pressure hit the roof of my head.
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Oh my… Thank God you read that email. I remember that when I was on the job market I could not stop opening my spam box to check whether I received an email from universities I applied to for a job.
I will open my Spam box now.
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