{"id":6491,"date":"2014-08-29T21:51:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T05:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=6491"},"modified":"2014-08-29T22:11:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T06:11:42","slug":"third-rejection-and-fourth-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=6491","title":{"rendered":"Third Rejection and Fourth Attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"?p=6482\">As expected<\/a>, my brief paper was quickly rejected by the third journal to which I sent it.  The rejection came mid-day on 19 July; the editor said that it didn't fit the general readership of the journal.  He suggested sending it to a journal focussed on Bayesian theory, or <em>to a specific journal of the very same association as that of the journal that he edits<\/em>.  I decided to try the latter.<\/p> <p>On the one hand, I don't see my paper as of interest only to those whom <em>I<\/em> would call <q>Bayesian<\/q>.  The principle in question concerns <span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">qualitative probability<\/span>, whether in the development of a subjectivist theory or of a logicist theory, and issues of Bayes&#39; Theorem only arise if one proceeds to develop a <em>quantitative<\/em> theory.  On the other hand, submitting to that other journal of the same association was something that I could do relatively quickly.<\/p>  <p>I postponed an up-date here because I thought that I'd report both rejections together if indeed another came quickly.  But, so far, my paper remains officially under review at that fourth journal.<\/p> <p>The paper is so brief &mdash; and really so <em>simple<\/em> &mdash; that someone with an <em>expertise<\/em> in its area could decide upon it minutes.  But reviewing it isn't just a matter of <em>cleverness<\/em>; one must be <em>familiar with the literature<\/em> to feel assured that its point is <em>novel<\/em>.  A reviewer without that familiarity would surely want to check the papers in the bibliography, and possibly to seek other work.<\/p> <p>Additionally, a friend discovered that, if he returned papers as quickly as he could properly review them, then editors began seeking to get him to review <em>many<\/em> more papers.  Quite reasonably, he slowed the pace of at which he returned his reviews.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As expected, my brief paper was quickly rejected by the third journal to which I sent it. The rejection came mid-day on 19 July; the editor said that it didn't fit the general readership of the journal. He suggested sending it to a journal focussed on Bayesian theory, or to a specific journal of the [&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":[117,720,5,4],"tags":[445,413,446],"class_list":["post-6491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-epistemology","category-personal","category-public","tag-papers","tag-probability","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6491","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=6491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}