Research and publication incur opportunity costs. For every manuscript that has to be reworked and submitted elsewhere, you’re losing the ability to do new rese

Research and publication incur opportunity costs. For every manuscript that has to be reworked and submitted elsewhere, you’re losing the ability to do new research. So a researcher is left trying to balance the cost/benefit of additional time investment. Sometimes that results in a higher quality publication, sometimes it results in abandoning good (or bad) work, and sometimes it just wastes time.