Just had your paper rejected? Don’t worry — that might boost its ultimate citation tally. An excavation of scientific papers’ usually hidden prepublication trajectories from journal to journal has found that papers published after having first been rejected elsewhere receive significantly more citations on average than ones accepted on first submission.
via Rejection improves eventual impact of manuscripts : Nature News & Comment.
So, rejection is not a terrible thing. Unless it is a girl you really like, I guess, but even then… No wait.
Did not mean that.
But, peer reviewed science is great because not everything is just accepted.
Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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And for those who appreciate the value of rejection to science and other academic endeavors, there’s The Journal of Universal Rejection.