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“I am afraid this manuscript may contribute not so much towards the field’s advancement as much as toward its eventual demise.”
ShitMyReviewersSay
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ShitMyReviewersSay
@YourPaperSucks
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Joined October 2014
- 'You will see that Reviewer 2 has slightly missed the point, so please don’t pay too much attention to their comments in your revision." -Editor
GIF - 'You will see that Reviewer 2 has slightly missed the point, so please don’t pay too much attention to their comments in your revision." - Editor
GIF - We are all Jo SharpI had a paper rejected once because I “didn’t seem to know the work of Jo Sharp well enough” - I am Jo Sharp!!! #ShareYourRejections
- 'This paper is desperate. Please reject it completely and then block the author's email ID so they can't use the online system in the future.'
00:00 - 'The manuscript makes 3 claims: The 1st we've known for years, the 2nd for decades, the 3rd for centuries."
GIF - "Statistical analysis. It is a bit strange for me that authors have used Python for statistical analysis instead of using SPSS or MATLAB as usual in the field. Please, explain."
GIF - “The Gettysburg Address was only 272 words, and was one of the most powerful speeches in history. This paper, on the other hand, is over 8,000 words and says absolutely nothing at all.”
GIF - 'The author should abandon the premise that his work can be considered research'
GIF - “Why don’t you just send copies of this to the two people in the world who care about it, and forget the publication route?”
GIF - "The arguments in the paper are compelling but not convincing"
00:00 - 'If the editor somehow accepts this paper, they risk permanent destroying the credibility of this journal and its editorial board'
- “The paper could be considered for acceptance given a rewrite of the paper and change in the title and abstract.”
GIF
