Why is your paper rejected? Lessons learned from over 5000 rejected transportation papers
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2024

Academic papers are the cornerstone of knowledge dissemination and crucial for researchers’ career development. This is particularly true for rapidly evolving research domains such as transportation, as evidenced by the surge of journals and papers in the past decade. While abundant literature offers guidance on successful publication strategies, insights into the reasons for rejection are rare. This study fills in this gap by examining why papers are rejected in the area of transportation. We present concrete evidence based on data from over 5,000 rejected transport papers. Quantitative analyses are conducted to reveal the impacts of similarity rate, duplication submission rate, and topic on desk rejections. Additionally, we shed light on the distinct focus reviewers have when serving different journals. We hope the results could equip transport researchers with a deeper comprehension of publication criteria and a better awareness of common but avoidable mistakes.

Elsevier

Transportation

Rejection

Publication

Författare

Jiaming Wu

Chalmers, Arkitektur och samhällsbyggnadsteknik, Geologi och geoteknik

Ivan Sanchez-Diaz

Chalmers, Teknikens ekonomi och organisation, Supply and Operations Management

Ying Yang

Shanghai University

Xiaobo Qu

Tsinghua University

Communications in Transportation Research

27724247 (eISSN)

Vol. 4 100129

Styrkeområden

Transport

Ämneskategorier

Ekonomi och näringsliv

Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

DOI

10.1016/j.commtr.2024.100129

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2024-05-29