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. 2022 Oct 5:6:715584.
doi: 10.22454/PRiMER.2022.715584. eCollection 2022.

Submit It Again! Learning From Rejected Manuscripts

Kendall M Campbell  1 , Judy C Washington  2 , Donna Baluchi  3 , José E Rodríguez  4
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Submit It Again! Learning From Rejected Manuscripts

Kendall M Campbell et al. PRiMER. .

Abstract

Rejection of manuscripts by academic journals can be devastating for the early-career family medicine faculty members. Taking experience from teaching early-career underrepresented in medicine faculty members writing and scholarship skills, we identify and explain five lessons to be learned from rejected manuscripts. The five lessons are: (1) rejections teach journal scope, (2) rejections teach process, (3) rejection should lead to resubmission, (4) rejections reflect writing effort, and (5) rejections happen to papers, not authors. Early-career family medicine faculty can use these lessons for reassurance and to adapt behaviors to remain in the scholarship arena.

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