{"id":575,"date":"2012-10-14T20:13:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T19:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/?p=575"},"modified":"2012-10-14T20:13:59","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T19:13:59","slug":"the-upside-of-being-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2012\/10\/14\/the-upside-of-being-rejected\/","title":{"rendered":"The upside of being rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I taught a writing course I reminded my students that scientific writing was an iterative process involving many revisions. Hence, when a paper is rejected following a reasonable or better review, it should be seen as an opportunity for improvement. \u00a0It seems my view is nicely reinforced by a recent paper in The Scientist Magazine entitled &#8220;The benefits of rejection&#8221; by Ruth Williams. It is well worth a read. Based on a survey that involved over 80,000 respondents, the main finding is that papers that are rejected, if resubmitted, even to a journal with a lower impact factor, are likely to be cited more often than other papers in the same journal. Incidentally, not only did I encourage revision, I also encouraged persistence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/?articles.view\/articleNo\/32787\/title\/The-Benefits-of-Rejection\/\">http:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/?articles.view\/articleNo\/32787\/title\/The-Benefits-of-Rejection\/<\/a><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I taught a writing course I reminded my students that scientific writing was an iterative process involving many revisions. Hence, when a paper is rejected following a reasonable or better review, it should be seen as an opportunity for improvement. \u00a0It seems my view is nicely reinforced by a recent paper in The Scientist [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2012\/10\/14\/the-upside-of-being-rejected\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2574],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}