Sentence examples for rejecting a paper from inspiring English sources
There's a version of this that's "this isn't really an [insert conference X] paper" that's sometimes used to recommend rejecting a paper.
I have been asked to review manuscripts from such so-called peer reviewed journals, but when I recommended rejecting a paper for lack of controls and for claims by the authors that are either invalid, inaccurate or simply false, in some cases the editor went ahead and ultimately accepted the paper.
Mention "peer review" and almost every scientist will spout stories about referees submitting nasty comments, sitting on a manuscript forever, or rejecting a paper only to repeat the study and steal the glory.
One of the major reasons for rejecting a paper is that it provides a limited advance beyond work already published.
Remember that one major reason for rejecting a paper is that the data are of poor quality.
Wager and Jefferson [ 9] (2001) highlighted some of the shortcomings of peer review, including its failure to discover errors and fraud, inefficiency, unnecessary delay and potential scientific misconduct when reviewers abuse their power in the peer-review system (e.g. rejecting a paper and plagiarizing its ideas and results) [ 10].
We will not reject a paper for lack of applied utility as long as the research provides new biological insight.
In another example, Jones supposedly unfairly rejected a paper that questioned his own results, despite the censored paper offering no supporting method, data or analysis.
How could I have had the temerity, screamed the empurpled sage, to have rejected a paper that made so much sense?
His beliefs led him to reject a paper sent him by the monk Gregor Mendel that, when rediscovered 40 years later, served as the source of the Mendelian laws of inheritance.
Wiley also publishes several other journals in this subject area so they have a "Manuscript Transfer Program": if one of the other journals in the programme rejects a paper, they can suggest it be transferred to Ecology and Evolution.
