EDITORIAL
The fate of papers rejected from Tobacco Control
simonchapman@health.usyd.edu.au
Keywords: rejected papers; Tobacco Control
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Rejecting papers is among the hardest tasks that editors must perform. We have strict page limits of 72 pages per issue and typically publish 11 original articles per issue—66 a year. We would like to publish more but our subscriber base and financial situation currently precludes this. Competition to get published is therefore tough. Of the 214 papers submitted to the journal in 2005 (as at 11 August) where decisions have been made, we have rejected 150 (69.7%), with 127 (59% of all decisions) being rejected before review. As authors ourselves, we know how disappointing a rejection can be. But it need not be the end of the road.
In July 2005, we searched the PubMed database for all 286 papers rejected by Tobacco Control between March 2002 and December 2003. We searched by the first author’s name and examined all papers with identical or similar titles to those submitted
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