{"id":10176,"date":"2018-01-26T23:24:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T07:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=10176"},"modified":"2018-01-26T23:24:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T07:24:51","slug":"a-second-rejection-and-third-submission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=10176","title":{"rendered":"A Second Rejection and Third Submission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 25 January, I received a desk rejection (without explanation) from the second journal to which I had submitted my article on qualitative probability.  To-day, I submitted to a third journal, adopting one of two suggestions from Anthony Gamst.<\/p> <p>This third journal imposes a strict word limit.  I am not sure how to adjust a word count in the presence of formul&aelig;, but I removed two tables to ensure that I were below the limit.  Possibly they might be restored, if a reviewer wants a pair of claims within the text to be substantiated.<\/p> <p>I also made some minor changes in the text to hide my identity in the specific manner demanded by the journal.  I don't know whether I would want to reverse those changes should the article be accepted.<\/p> <p>Additionally, I added a sentence to the abstract, in order to help the editor (and any other possible reader) recognize the philosophical content within the paper.<\/p> <p>Again, most articles receive rejections before being sent to reviewers, and most articles sent to reviewers are rejected.  I must be prepared to deal with yet another rejection.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On 25 January, I received a desk rejection (without explanation) from the second journal to which I had submitted my article on qualitative probability. To-day, I submitted to a third journal, adopting one of two suggestions from Anthony Gamst. This third journal imposes a strict word limit. I am not sure how to adjust a [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[445],"class_list":["post-10176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-public","tag-papers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}