Dear Emanuel,
An invitation to submit does not mean that the paper will be published.
Open access (OA) journals publishers send numerous emails to convince
authors to submit.
Sometimes it is done at the occasion of a conference, and it can be even
mentioned on the conference website.
If all the submitted manuscripts would be published, the quality of the OA
journals would be very poor.
This indeed happens for predatory journals and publishers, for which almost
all manuscripts are published provided that the authors pay the page charge.
Fortunately, a serious journal have an editor, and the job of this latter
is to decide if submitted manuscripts should be published or not.
The word "invitation" is also used for conferences.
As for journals, it just means that you are welcome to submit a
contribution, but without any guarantee that it will be accepted (a true
invited contribution is ususally associated to a funding, at least partial).
When a journal paper is invited, in the sense that anyway it will be
published (possibly after corrections), it is explicitely mentioned by the
editor in his invitation letter.
In the case of your paper, I do not see any contradiction between the
invitation and the rejection.
Best regards,
Michel Petitjean
MTi, INSERM UMR-S 973, University Paris 7,
35 rue Helene Brion, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France.
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2016-01-26 8:12 GMT+01:00 Emanuel Diamant <emanl....@gmail.com>:
>
>
> Dear Pedro,
>
>
>
> Shortly after the Vienna Summit, I was invited to submit an extended
> version of my conference paper for a publication in the Special Issue of
> the Information journal "Selected Papers from the ISIS Summit Vienna 2015".
>
> It took me a lot of time to prepare the manuscript, but in the end, it was
> submitted to the journal.
>
> Soon afterwards, I was informed that “your manuscript has been declined
> for publication in Information”.
>
> No comments, no further explanations – I have some previous experience
> with publishing selected conference papers in revered journals but that is
> my first encounter with such invited paper treatment style.
>
> Never mind, I have published the article in the Research Gate. Because its
> subject is closely related to the discussion we held on the FIS forum in
> October 2015, I dare to provide a link to this RG publication (may be the
> issue is still interested for some FIS partakers).
>
>
>
>
> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/291352419_The_brain_is_processing_information_not_data_Does_anybody_knows_about_that
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>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Emanuel Diamant.
>
>
>
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