2. Last time…
Overview of the various steps in the
review and publication process
Some issues that authors face at
these various steps
Review…
3. The Big Picture
Submit paper Desk reject
Initial Review Reject
Revise & Resubmit
Re-review Reject
Conditional
Accept
Re-review
Accept
30%
15%
55%
(rare)
(twice)
~5%
4. Key Concern…
Once you get an “R&R,” how do you
move your paper into the “Conditional
Accept” position and not:
A reject
Multiple cycles in the R&R cycle
5. The Plan
Present two case histories from my
tenure as AE at ORM
One success story (2009-005)
One utter failure (2005-006)
Examine blinded reviews,
correspondence etc.
6. To Summarize:
Do:
Quote Editor’s and
reviewers’ comments
verbatim
Deal with every issue
raised in one way or
another
Respond in a
defferential manner,
keep a positive tome
Don’t
Paraphrase or
summarize comments
Ignore or overlook
issues raised
Be argumentative,
confrontative or
combative
7. To Summarize:
Do:
Clarify points in a friendly
pedagogical way
Respond to each point
as it appears in the
context of others
Document your
responses with
appropriate citations
Don’t:
Be flippant or
condescending
Simply note that “I
already dealt with that
earlier…”
Assume that the
reviewer knows a
particular cite
8. Closing comment…
“When one of my articles is finally published I always
have a sense that I am only partially the author,
something is lost; this something may be a part of
myself. There are so many other actors…who
have…succeeded in making changes…or getting me
to make it in a satisfactory way that it no longer
feels mine in a traditional sense.” (Roth, 2002, p. 15)
