37.6 Review paper
To reject, find major flaws
If you propose alternative specification or robustness, provide rationale why it’s necessary.
How to deal with rejections
Let it sit for a few days before/after you read it
Vent your anger with your coauthors
Examine main points of rejection and focus on improvement
Submit to another journal and forget about it
How to deal with revisions
Let it sit for a few days
Vent with coauthors
Examine main concerns (for those papers that you can’t address reviewer’s concern, consider submitting to another journal). If you don’t send back within certain window, editors assume you are not going to submit it.
For major revisions, you don’t send it back right away in a month
Results
Rejection: don’t ever send it back
Reject and resubmit: If you do these certain thing, we treat it as a new paper
Major revision: major problems, but if you revise it, the outcome is still uncertain, but you pass the first round (about 50% will be rejected in the second round)
Minor revision: problems that are easily solvable (less uncertainty)
Conditional acceptance: some small things, wordings (no risk of being rejected)
Accept as is