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For example, one author angrily accused me of rejecting a manuscript that I had not in fact reviewed.
He gave examples of instances which would "naturally be thought of as foreign interference operations but which may not be successfully prosecuted under the new laws", such as a university publisher rejecting a manuscript critical of the Chinese Communist party because it fears losing revenue from Chinese students and research collaborations with Chinese universities.
While the researchers didn't notice any clear trends for the first three categories, they did observe that reviewers cited multiple times were 30% less likely to recommend rejecting a manuscript than those who were not cited.
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A PI rejected a manuscript coming from a female postdoc as 'unpublishable' while that same manuscript is judged to be 'a great piece of work and ready for submission' when coming from the male co-first author instead.
Earlier this year his publishing company, HarperCollins, rejected a manuscript for a book by Chris Patten on his years as governor of Hong Kong, which it had earlier agreed to publish.
He made the final decision to accept or reject a manuscript after peer review based on academic quality (Jin, 2009).
The Co-Editors will make the ultimate decision on whether to accept or reject a manuscript, and they will work in conjunction with the Editorial Advisory Board to maintain a close watch on the process to assure consistency across subject areas.
I gave Borscht so much free press in New Times, even after they rejected a manuscript I submitted.
Periodicals that had yet to review the book rejected a manuscript on the subject as of little or no consequence (e.g. The Village Voice, Dissent, The New York Review of Books).
Once they have received the reviewers' reports, the editors make the decision to accept or reject a manuscript for publication.
It does, however, note that poor writing is considered a legitimate reason to reject a manuscript (p. 265).
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