{"id":328,"date":"2009-12-08T15:55:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T15:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/?p=328"},"modified":"2009-12-08T15:55:30","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T15:55:30","slug":"why-reviewerseditors-reject-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"Why reviewers\/editors reject articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Notes from a workshop on &#8216;Writing for peer-reviewed journals&#8217; run by Pat Thomson.<\/p>\n<p>Reasons why reviewers and editors say they reject articles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lack of focus &#8211; saying everything, focusing on nothing, cramming too much in one article<\/li>\n<li>Not locating the contribution and the position &#8211; for a particular audience, in relation to wider debates. the specific conversation int his journal<\/li>\n<li>Poor organisation &#8211; not guiding the reader, poor headings, not enough signposts, too many signposts<\/li>\n<li>Failing to convince the reader &#8211; does not adequately deal with the methodology<\/li>\n<li>Not significant &#8211; too local, done a lot, doesn&#8217;t add anything<\/li>\n<li>Sounding like a n00b rather than an equal &#8211; assumes significance, sounds tentative, overclaims<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes from a workshop on &#8216;Writing for peer-reviewed journals&#8217; run by Pat Thomson. Reasons why reviewers and editors say they reject articles: Lack of focus &#8211; saying everything, focusing on nothing, cramming too much in one article Not locating the contribution and the position &#8211; for a particular audience, in relation to wider debates. the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,10,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potential-papers","category-research-tools","category-things-to-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}