This happened to me 3 times, with me or my supervisors involved in the same paper. I feel frustrated and the feeling to start over again from the scratch is overwhelming. Normally, we submit it, then the reviewers who have labs with more technology and are able to redo our experiments in a more "elegant fashion" reject it and redo it. We made it once with human cells, they used animal cells. The one without "specific reasons for rejection" just happened last week... When I looked at pubmed to update our data after 1 month writing and submitting, there were 29 papers with the same theme, that did not exist when we started submitting it.
If this happened to you too, what did you do to overcome it? Is it very common in nowadays science?
Yes- because the editor who has published cross sectional research throughout his career, did not like cross sectional research! Not only was this hypocritical but it was based on a misinterpretation of the supposed benefits of multiple time points.
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