What Happens to Rejected Papers?

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By Neuroskeptic
Jan 4, 2017 1:43 AMNov 20, 2019 5:36 AM

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The pain of rejection is one that every scientist has felt: but what happens to papers after they're declined by a journal? In a new study, researchers Earnshaw et al. traced the fate of almost 1,000 manuscripts which had been submitted to and rejected by ear, nose and throat journal

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