It is a big turn-down when your article gets rejected for the wrong reasons. Have you ever felt that the reviewers have not read your paper properly before writing their comments? What to do when you get back your manuscript with some sloppy comments?
I had an experienxe of editor disliking my papwr and not wanting to send it for review, although he was from totally different area of specialisation....bad feeling, but you can't really do anything about it. Another journal of the same quality accepted it without revision!
Does writing to the Chief Editor help in such situations? After having spent almost an year doing two major revisions? The original manuscript has changed drastically. A new submission would certainly come with their own set of revisions. Kosta Sotiroski Mirna Leko-Šimić
Don't consider it a turn down but a blessing until you find the right person to read it. It is not easy because everyone is different, may have other expectations. Need to send to several to be successive or lucky.
Colleagues and I submitted a paper to a quality journal (which was eventually accepted), but it went through four (seemingly endless) rounds of revision over two years.
Part of the problem was a reviewer who clearly had no understanding of qualitative research. It may not have been the same reviewers each time. We got to the point where reviewers were asking us to take out things earlier reviewers had asked us to add.
With our final submission, we respectfully complained to the journal editor complaining about the endless rounds of reviews and the contradictory instructions. We said #4 was the last revision we would submit and that if it was not accepted we would withdraw the paper.
That time I think the editor accepted our final version without sending it out again for review, because we had made a strong case about poor treatment by unqualified reviewers.
The paper has been cited quite a few times, so our paper DID gain some acceptance from the scholarly community.
I am sure that we have all experienced such moments in our career; however, the only thing we should do must be hard work and a new start.
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