I received a "reject and resubmit" decision, but I do not think I will be able to satisfactorily address all the comments from the reviewers. Can I take the "reject and resubmit" decision as a mere rejection of my paper and proceed as if my paper were no longer committed to that journal?
Rejection of an article by a journal doesn't imply that the article is poor. Read it again, try to add or delete some of statements, give it to a colleague to read ,then resubmit it to another journal. Regards.
When a journal rejects my paper with critical comments, it helps me to revise and resubmit somewhere else. Usually, such rejections could mean the paper doesn't match the journal’s focus or that they are technical issues that need to be addressed.
Every Journal adopts policy implemented by the editors. Higher indexed Journals' do care for the quality of the paper and consider their credibility as an important attribute to the success and famousness, that's why they reject to publish the article if otherwise the authors follows his reviewers comments seriously. Whatever in correspondence has been exchanged between you and the editors of the Journal are private and its not disclosed to any other Journal, even if your article is published in any their Journal.
After having said that, there is no restriction to submit the same article/paper with better script to any other Journal which is relevant to your area of interest/field/study. However, you need to improve the standard of your article by sharing it with your close academic friends who can help you make your paper look good to the editors and they accept it for publication, that's what you want.
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