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In my experience, papers often take more than just two submissions to be published. It's often a question of finding a good community fit. One paper I coauthore
by ttd 10y ago
In my experience, papers often take more than just two submissions to be published. It's often a question of finding a good community fit. One paper I coauthored took 8 years and probably 10 submissions before it was finally accepted.
Length restrictions can be a bummer, but if you have a publishable result that you simply can't squeeze into 10-20 pages (depending on the venue), typically you split it in to two or more publications. This has the added advantage of ensuring that each published unit is a smaller, tighter piece of work. I don't think it's just pedantry.
- KKKKkkkk1 10y agoMany people would say that if you submitted 10 times, you are playing the system. You've had 10 sets of reviewers spend time to review your work, even though 9 of them told you that it's not worth publishing. I guess that's the advantage that tenured researchers have over everyone else--you can't run out of career before you published all of your papers.
- watwut 10y agoDepends on what reviewer actually told you. There is not worth publishing and there is not worth publishing in this journal. Those two are not the same. Moreover, there is level of subjectivity in peer review.
- ttd 10y agoI don't really agree with the "playing the system" sentiment. It isn't as if we took the same paper 10 times and just submitted it until it stuck somewhere. Each time we got valuable, actionable feedback, which we then acted upon; the final paper was almost unrecognizable from the first submission except in the core ideas. We gained a lot of experience as a team from this process, and the end result is a much, much better unit of work entered into the literature. None of my other publications have taken 10 submissions, so this case is also probably an outlier.
- specialist 10y agoIs there anything like an academic paper marketplace, matchmaker, brokerage?
- ttd 10y agoNot to my knowledge. Gaining familiarity with the different venues in your subfield is an important part of the graduate (and beyond) education.