Here is a lengthy, angst-ridden march across three continents, six cities, and 18 months:

Journal #1: submitted September 7, 2006; rejected October 4.
Journal #2: submitted December 4; rejected December 6.
Journal #3: submitted December 16; rejected January 18, 2007.
Journal #4: preliminary inquiry submitted September 12, 2007; rejected September 14.
Journal #5: submitted September 22; rejected November 5.
Journal #6: submitted November 6; rejected November 7.
Journal #7: submitted November 7; rejected November 19.
Journal #8: submitted November 21, 2007; revisions requested February 11, 2008; resubmitted February 18; re-revisions requested March 4; re-resubmitted March 5; accepted March 20, 2008.

My prior record was five rejections for a single paper, drawn out over the course of eleven months.

[Slashdot] [Digg] [Reddit] [del.icio.us] [Facebook] [Technorati] [Google] [StumbleUpon]
Posted in International Health, Research on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 9:08 pm by alex
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

1 Comment

  1. ouch. but congratulations! the power of perseverance?

    yeabirfday # Sat Mar 22, 2008 — 8:41 pm

Leave a Comment

XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>