每一篇文章都是作者长时间劳动的结果。好不容易想出一个自己觉得很有价值的观点,费了很多精力去验证,最后辛辛苦苦地整理成几页文字,再经过几个月焦心的等候,等来却可能是文章被拒。在N多种拒稿意见中,最让人伤心的是审稿人觉得文章结果不重要,换句话说就是:这文章整的是啥玩意?如何说方法错了,那是自己才疏学浅,只能有错就改。但要是方法对了,结果也是对的,但别人就觉得一点意义都没有,这就等于说直接否定了以前的努力。这时间浪费地比泡吧还不值得,这点挺让自觉得有着高尚追求的科研人员无法接受。 --- 阅读原文 请点击链接造访 【英论阁学术院】文章被拒的理由-结果不够重要 --- 那好吧,啥样的结果不重要呢?曾读过一篇文章,推导了二维跟三维情况下的Lorentz变换。学过相对论的都知道一维的情况教科书就有了,作者认为教科书上没有的就不代表没用,推导出二维跟三维的情况放在一篇文章上,一个是可以节约大家推导的时间,二是可以增加对相对论的理解。确实推推这些公式也挺花时间的,三维坐标轴下的公式确实挺长的,一不小心就搞错了,真都弄对还是要费不少功夫。但不管怎么说,还是很难接受文章可以给当作一个正规的期刊文章刊登出来。因为从物理意义上来说,确实没有更多的价值。深度呢?也没有比一维的情况更有见地。 俺也有文章就这么给拒过。早前要计算一些结构,用了好几个专业的小软件,但是那些软件都没有优化功能,所以就写了一个程序来调用这些工具进行优化,为了具有通用性跟可扩展性,还着实花了不少时间设计了一个通用接口,再这边抄一点,那边抄一点,加了一个表达式解析器,再安进去几个优化算法。弄完之后自己还觉得挺得意的。项目完了之后,想想花了这么多时间在这上头居然没有研究产出,于是花了点时间写了篇文章介绍这个优化器的框架,再加上两个算例投了出去,自认为有设计有案例,估计发表没问题。审稿意见回来了,有个兄台很不客气的说:the paper is too basic and too trivial. A non trivial improvement is essential.编辑叫大修,想想这种文章也就是这样了,再改也改不出啥花的,于是改投另一个期刊,影响因子低到可以忽略不计的。心想哥们,就纳了咱吧。结果人家影响因子虽低,拒稿也不含糊。审稿人说的是:it is not a research。至此就放弃了再投的念头。同时也深深体会到:一个混在物理界的码农,要想发表点有质量的文章是很难的。 这事情对俺刺激还是挺大的。经过认真反思,俺再没把写漂亮的代码作为科研目标,而是抱着能用就行的态度去写代码。而科研重心则放在思考那些fancy idea上。也知道这样子不好,变功利了,但是没法,虽然文章是学术界的敲门砖呢。 § 博客内容皆由 英论阁 资深学术专家团队撰写提供 § ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 您可能感兴趣的博文: 1. 文章被拒的理由-独木不成林 2. 文章被拒的理由-第二种原理性错误 3. 文章被拒的理由-没有做好期刊调研 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
拒绝拒信的通用模版,看完捧腹大笑!刚发表在theBMJ http://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h6326 Feature Christmas 2015: The Publication Game Rejection of rejection: a novel approach to overcoming barriers to publication BMJ 2015; 351 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h6326 (Published 14 December 2015) Cite this as: BMJ 2015;351:h6326 http://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h6326 Tired of rejections? Cath Chapman and Tim Slade offer a simple way to fight back All academics aim to publish in high impact journals. However, many leading scientific and medical journals reject more than 80% of the manuscripts they receive, making rejection the biggest barrier to publication in high quality journals. We propose a novel solution to this problem. It involves very little extra work by submitting authors, is applicable to a wide range of circumstances (such as flawed study, lack of broad interest to the field, or highly critical assessors), and is scaleable to meet the needs of academics from various disciplines. To be submitted on receipt of a manscript rejection, the rejection of rejection letter (box) aims to significantly improve the publication rates of participating academics by overcoming the leading barrier to publication—manuscript rejection. An electronic copy of the letter is available from the authors on request. Rejection of rejection letter Dear Professor Thank you for your rejection of the above manuscript. Unfortunately we are not able to accept it at this time. As you are probably aware we receive many rejections each year and are simply not able to accept them all. In fact, with increasing pressure on citation rates and fiercely competitive funding structures we typically accept fewer than 30% of the rejections we receive. Please don’t take this as a reflection of your work. The standard of some of the rejections we receive is very high. In terms of the specific factors influencing our decision the failure by Assessor 1 to realise the brilliance of the study was certainly one of them. Simply stating “this study is neither novel nor interesting and does not extend knowledge in this area” is not reason enough. This, coupled with the use of Latin quotes by Assessor 2, rendered an acceptance of your rejection extremely unlikely. We do wish you and your editorial team every success with your rejections in the future and hope they find safe harbour elsewhere. To this end, may we suggest you send one to for consideration. They accept rejections from some very influential journals. Please understand that our decision regarding your rejection is final. We have uploaded the final manuscript in its original form, along with the signed copyright transfer form. We look forward to receiving the proofs and to working with you in the future. Yours sincerely Dr