Respected scientific committee of elite researchers am here to discuss about my manuscript based on an non-clinical experimental study which i undertook for my MD dissertation. It was indeed a complex project for an MD dissertation completed in latter part of year 2019. Finished penning down a manuscript while pursuing a super specialty course after having made contributions in corona pandemic as front-line worker so as to maintain time-relevance. Four of the journals have rejected my manuscript citing various para-scientific reasons. I request the community to help me find a journal of repute indexed in Pubmed/ scopus/ embase which publishes negative study . Thank you all.
Enclosure- Abstract of manuscript of the study.
Dear doctor
Please do not be discouraged. I realise this is disappointing. I realise that this will take a while for you to understand because this is very hurtful.
To quote my supervisor when something bad like this happened to me: Don’t m do not report; it is a good manuscript; find another journal and they will sept it “. They were so right and u was so happy!
If your paper is rejected based on the negative assessment of one or two reviewers just resubmit it to another journal. Peer review is a very poor guide to a papers quality.
But if four successive journals all reject your paper, presumably based on different reviewers in each case, and they cite the same issues with a piece of work which is based on a student project - you might want to consider that they have a point.
That doesn't mean there is no value in publishing the result (and there is no gate-keeping in 21st century academia, you can just upload it to a repository like this one) but before you dismiss the reviews you should take a few moments to critically reflect on why your paper is being rejected and if it in fact needs more work to be of value to other scholars.
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