Cheap Trick paper rejected by 'Vaccines' journal
Peer review successfully avoided!
We submitted the latest version of our ‘cheap trick’ paper to Vaccines - the international, peer-reviewed, open access journal, hoping they would be open minded and brave enough to review and hopefully accept it for publication.
We received this response a few days later:
We regret to inform you that we will not be processing your submission further. Submissions sent for peer-review are selected based on discipline, novelty and general significance, in addition to the usual criteria for publication in scholarly journals. Therefore, our decision does not necessarily reflect the quality of your work.
We wish you every success if you choose to pursue publication elsewhere.
Kind regards,
Vaccines Editorial Office
vaccines@mdpi.com
It didn’t even go out to review but was rejected - instantly!
Their rejection email doesn’t make it clear why it was rejected, though they imply it wasn’t relevant to the discipline (despite it being about a supposed vaccine), wasn’t novel or wasn’t of ‘general’ significance. Or maybe our efforts weren’t scholarly enough? Who knows?
Well at least they were fast and didn’t waste our time over many months like the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice:
So much for peer review!
As an aside it is worth mentioning that when a paper is submitted to Vaccines you can list reviewers who you think are suitable for the subject matter. We named the new head of the NIH - Jay Bhattacharya - as a potential reviewer given he would obviously be a natural good fit. Sadly he didn’t even get to see it, never mind review it.
Still, we wont give up and the next step is to take it to another journal and see if they are willing and able to challenge the orthodoxy.
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Congratulations!
This is the confirmation that your work is timeless, or (at least) beyond the limits of the current time.
Weirdly, rejections of papers have come to the the best proof quality work a researcher or scientist could imagine. Not everyone is awarded this level of respect these days...
Thank you for what you do and how you share it with the rest of us.
Hit them with a DSAR for every piece of paper, phone call or recording of your legal name. You might find out they have breached your data discussing it with other companies. They are obviously guilty of conduct ancillary to war crimes and crimes against humanity, one day we might find a judge who is not bent but I won't hold my breath.