Disappointed there's no actual submission e-mail address - I was hoping for a bot that would send "Thanks for your submission!" and then seven days later send you a very cleverly-written rejection notice. posted by l33tpolicywonk at 4:47 PM on January 22, 2011 [4 favorites]
Spurned non-tenured college teacher makes a jokey cathartic page. posted by Burhanistan at 4:49 PM on January 22, 2011 [1 favorite]
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that this submission will be rejected and it might have something to do with the quality. posted by gman at 4:53 PM on January 22, 2011 [2 favorites]
Some people in my office were shocked by the naïveté of a scientist who submitted a paper to Nature without lobbying the editor first. posted by lukemeister at 5:07 PM on January 22, 2011 [5 favorites]
Metallica said it best. Ugly but true at the top tier of scientific publishing. Of course, I was that naif. posted by Existential Dread at 5:17 PM on January 22, 2011
great idea for a journal.
I s'pose they reject all advertising as well? posted by seawallrunner at 5:23 PM on January 22, 2011
"Godot has Twitter"
"yes" posted by clavdivs at 5:45 PM on January 22, 2011
So, will this be one of those journals that's bundled in packages to academic libraries?
(it might be less misleading and counterproductive than other more successful journals, I would speculate; but I am not in academia). posted by el io at 6:03 PM on January 22, 2011 [1 favorite]
Finally! An academic journal I'll be able to read cover-to-cover! posted by djgh at 6:13 PM on January 22, 2011 [4 favorites]
I heard Bovine University was starting up a journal a lot like this, actually. posted by cthuljew at 6:13 PM on January 22, 2011
Submissions should be emailed to the Editor-in-Chief.
If it doesn't take a stamp I'm not interested. posted by cjorgensen at 6:15 PM on January 22, 2011
An axiom to stick by. posted by clavdivs at 6:43 PM on January 22, 2011
After submitting your work, the decision process varies. Often the Editor-in-Chief will reject your work out-of-hand, without even reading it! However, he might read it. Probably he'll skim. At other times your manuscript may be sent to anonymous referees. Unless they are the Editor-in-Chief's wife or graduate school buddies, it is unlikely that the referees will even understand what is going on. Rejection will follow as swiftly as a bird dropping from a great height after being struck by a stone. At other times, rejection may languish like your email buried in the Editor-in-Chief's inbox. But it will come, swift or slow, as surely as death. Rejection.
hattifattener: I'm kind of disappointed to see that Rejecta Mathematica only had that one issue. I was hoping that they'd be more of a regular thing. posted by madcaptenor at 10:24 PM on January 22, 2011
Unfortunately, due to overwhelming volume and the impact of the economy on my finances, I will no longer be accepting new rejections. I thank you for your disinterest and lack of time, and wish you better success in rejecting other authors. posted by Slap*Happy at 7:26 AM on January 23, 2011
Ahh, academic journals! The publishing venue where authors agonize over acceptance and have the same number of readers whether they get accepted or not. posted by sonic meat machine at 10:27 AM on January 23, 2011 [2 favorites]
gman: "I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that this submission will be rejected and it might have something to do with the quality."
Sounds like your thesis was rejected by the mods. posted by Chrysostom at 7:22 PM on January 23, 2011
So...this is different from other literary journals how, exactly? posted by Maaik at 8:50 AM on February 9, 2011
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