"Rejection of research paper is the fate of scholars"
"being rejected by a good journal could be a leading indicator for eventual success"
Hello good evening Dear Scholars,
In this blog post, i will share with you my personal experience of my research papers rejections.
First of all, rejection of your research paper from a worthy journal is not a matter of disappointment for you, Even it is a blessing.If you think rejection is really a disappointment then I m not agree with you because world best researchers had to face many rejections. I hope all scholars are familiar with Sir Clive William John Granger for his contribution in Cointegration Granger causality.Indeed he was a great scholar and econometric GURU, a paper title as "Some thoughts on the development of cointegration" published in journal of econometrics in 2010 after one year the death (He died in 2009) of Sir Clive William John Granger, in this paper sir Clive W.J. Granger shared his story of rejection of his papers,as I mentioned above rejection of your paper from a good journal is not a disappoint but it is a blessing. Sir Clive said one "I wrote up a version of the theory, including a simplified version of the `representation theorem' and submitted it to Econometrica. I also mentioned cointegration in a few other places as it was attracting a lot of interest. Econometrica rejected the paper for various reasons, such as wanting a deeper theory and some discussion of the testing question and an application. As I knew little about testing I was very happy to accept Rob's offer of help with the revision. I re-did the representation theorem and he produced the test and application, giving a paper by Granger and Engle which evolved into a paper by Engle and Granger, whilst I was away for six months leave in Oxford and Canberra. This new paper was submitted to Econometrica but it was also rejected for not being sufficiently original. I was anxious to submit it to David Hendry's new econometrics journal but Rob wanted to explore other possibilities. These were being considered when the editor of Econometrica asked us to re-submit because they were getting so many submissions on this topic that they needed our paper as some kind of base reference. A few citations and twenty years later and here we are, although I still believe that the paper would have
been successful wherever it was published!
As I am reconsidering some history, the period I just covered was a strange one for Rob and I as we had another sound paper, written with John Rice and Andy Weiss, on ``semi-parametric
regressions'' which we sent to the Journal of the American Statistical Association but it was also rejected. It was a good and quite original paper so we appealed the decision to the editor who gave it to another sub-editor to make a decision and he accepted it. For the next decade or more, this paper was cited a great deal as it was the only example of an application in this area.
From the evidence of these two papers, it seems that being rejected by a good journal could be a leading indicator for eventual success.
From the above examples, it could be seen rejection is not only concerned with newbies but "Rejection of research paper is the fate of scholars"
Normally scholars get worried after rejection and they think they didn't worthy work but we all know that there is always a space for the improvement.
I would like to suggest you always go for good publishers such as (Elsevier ,Springer-Verlag ,Taylor & Francis ,John Wiley and Sons ,Sage Publications ,SciELO ,Walter de Gruyter ,Redalyc ,RMIT Publishing ,Inderscience Publishers ,Hindawi ,Project MUSE ,Cambridge University Press ,Oxford University Press ,Revues and Emerald),Further more most of the journals from these publishers are free so you have no need to be worried about publication charges.
For the Pakistani Scholars I will not suggest submitting their precious work in HEC recognized journals, the reseaon is that their publication process is not speedy, once you submit your paper and after a long time you only get an email which only confirms you that your paper is rejected and most important thing they do not comment on your manuscript, that is the reason i m saying don't for go HEC recognized journals.So, I would like to suggest you guys always submit your paper in reputed journals, and the benefit of submitting your manuscript in good journals is that their publication process is much speedy.In a case when your paper is being rejected.Journal provides you detailed comments that why your paper is rejected.One more thing scholars always think that their work is novel but after experts review, they can also learn what mistakes they did and what improvements needs.Once your paper rejected you get comments as well now add all comments and submit it again. One another good point if you submit your paper in good journal maximum after one month you will get an email of comments (it is not always but as per my personal experience I got many time comments within one month after the submission of paper).
hope you enjoy that post.
good luck you may comment as well.
