The editor of most journals is the gatekeeper.
Therefore, inquiry with the editor or a member of the editorial staff as to
if your paper is appropriate is very important, especially when submitting
to journals like Ecology, PNAS, etc. With PNAS, discussion with an academy
member is probably suffic
Hello Edwin,
You asked for examples of rejection and subsequent publication.
Here are 3 marine examples from gatekeeper journals
Nature 271:352 rejected by Science
American Naturalist 139:148 rejected by Marine Ecology--Progress Series
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 352: 633rejected by Ecolog
Hi,
Another way of looking at this is:
1. there has been an explosion in the numbers of ecologists and fields and
subfields
2. ecologists (especially males) have moved to the "smallest possible
publishable unit" as a criterion for manuscript submission because of
"publish or perish" pressures
3.
It's an issue that terrestrial work is "ecology" but aquatic work is
specialized "marine ecology" even though 2/3 of the planet is water!!
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On May 19, 2017, at 1:39 PM, Edwin Cruz-Rivera
mailto:edwin.cruzriv...@uvi.edu>> wrote:
Dear all,
I apologize for the cross listin
Dear all,
I apologize for the cross listing. We are trying to cover as broad a canvas
as possible:
In the past years, journals have increased the responsibilities of
editors-in-chief to the point that they have become gatekeepers of their
publications. The bottom line is that papers get sen
