There is this really famous journal in my field which is known for sending back very mean and nasty rejections within a couple of days of an article’s submission.
I never wanted to submit anything to them because I didn’t want to deal with the trauma (again). However, my emotional range is very depleted by the pregnancy, and I barely feel anything on any subject. So now might be the best time to submit a paper to this place. Besides, a swift nasty rejection is a lot better than a nasty rejection that you have to wait for during an entire year.
See how I’m trying to talk myself into submitting my article there?
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Send it! It is better than sending an article to a very famous jounral in our field and waiting to receive nasty comments in 10-12 months. I’m in my 10th month now.
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God, how scary! I need to know which one it is.
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Revista de crítica lit. latinoam.
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Good luck!!!
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Sounds like a good moment to submit it. A good moment for masochism, on the other hand, is whenever you’re feeling so weak that you don’t have the will, the mental strength, the stamina to deal with it, and you’d rather get the acceptance of someone else at the little price of some punishment.
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I am also supporting the decision to send, but only if you are sure you have done 100% on this article. If you just finished writing it, do you sometimes leave it for a while (weak /month) and then return to reread it with fresh eyes, searching for possible improvements? I saw this advice by authors about writing literary works, but may be you (can) apply it to your job too?
Hope I didn’t say anything not OK.
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Send it! My bet is that most of the published papers are from older, white, male tentured profs who belong to the club. You can have lots of fun later blogging about white male privilege with respect to academic journals.
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Yes, I’m SO into writing these kind of posts. The word “privilege ” practically populates every sentence. 🙂 :–)
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THe question is how good is the journal for your reputation if you publish something therein??
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Phenomenal. 🙂 I wouldn’t turn into a masochist for reputational peanuts. 🙂
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I think hearing back from a journal within days of submission would be such a delightful surprise that I wouldn’t even mind being rejected! 😉 I haven’t ever submitted to the top journal in my particular subfield field because they have a very high rejection rate _and_ a long turn around time. And those two things coupled together always discourage me.
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This quick rejection stuff happens quite often in my field. It simply means that the editor Googled you name and decided you are not prestigious enough for them.
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It can’t hurt to send it, especially if you’re willing to do so now. Besides, what if they don’t reject it?
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“Besides, what if they don’t reject it?”
– I haven’t even considered that possibility. 🙂
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I’ve been taking Resveratrol these days — which is to say, sampling it — as a kind of anti-aging tonic. Since I may be peri-menopausal, it seems to balance my hormones, but giving an additional estrogen supply. On the counter side, depending on how you look at it, it pins me in the here-and-now, in a way I’ve not been used to since early childhood. It also has the effect of making me remember sequences of events in the distant past, and the moods accompanying them. Mike tried this stuff and he also began to remember and relate sequences from his past, which was unusual for him to do. Anyway, these effects are subtle but do indicate that the brain’s behavior is malleable for sure.
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