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Another day, another journal paper rejected. This may be a long rant so it's going in spoilers Read at your own risk.SpoilerThis in itself is a pretty normal part of being a struggling academic in a pandemic, but it's not so much that which has got me really frustrated.One of the reviewers clearly doesn't know my specialist topic very well. The article is a combination of my specialism and another, and I'm fully prepared to be brutalised and educated on the second as it isn't an area I know as well as mine. But this review is a...problem, and I really hate when I get reviews like that. The reviewer managed to confuse one historical figure for another, and then lectured me on my use of one thinking it was the other.They dismissed the relevance of the text my article was focused on, and instead decided to cite another related text - I still don't really know why, but the best I could glean was that they felt like one text was as good as another? In any case they told me it wasn't productive to look at the variants as their detail didn't matter...?Then they lectured me on a particular facet of the texts I study which I didn't include. Because the facet doesn't apply to the text I was using as my source material. And then they closed off by telling me that I should do more reading on my specialist subject....This is a summary of course. But seriously? You muddle up the characters, choose to cite a different text, ignore the actual text, try to impose an irrelevant interpretation on that text and then tell me *I* need to do more reading?Seriously, I don't expect every Academic to know every detail of subject, but if you're going to be a patronising jerk in your commentary, at least make sure your patronising lecture is correct.
Quote from: Taffeta on August 19, 2021, 12:54:44 PMAnother day, another journal paper rejected. This may be a long rant so it's going in spoilers Read at your own risk.SpoilerThis in itself is a pretty normal part of being a struggling academic in a pandemic, but it's not so much that which has got me really frustrated.One of the reviewers clearly doesn't know my specialist topic very well. The article is a combination of my specialism and another, and I'm fully prepared to be brutalised and educated on the second as it isn't an area I know as well as mine. But this review is a...problem, and I really hate when I get reviews like that. The reviewer managed to confuse one historical figure for another, and then lectured me on my use of one thinking it was the other.They dismissed the relevance of the text my article was focused on, and instead decided to cite another related text - I still don't really know why, but the best I could glean was that they felt like one text was as good as another? In any case they told me it wasn't productive to look at the variants as their detail didn't matter...?Then they lectured me on a particular facet of the texts I study which I didn't include. Because the facet doesn't apply to the text I was using as my source material. And then they closed off by telling me that I should do more reading on my specialist subject....This is a summary of course. But seriously? You muddle up the characters, choose to cite a different text, ignore the actual text, try to impose an irrelevant interpretation on that text and then tell me *I* need to do more reading?Seriously, I don't expect every Academic to know every detail of subject, but if you're going to be a patronising jerk in your commentary, at least make sure your patronising lecture is correct. How frustrating! Is there another journal you can submit to? If you feel like talking about it my inbox is always open (I'm currently waiting for the editors' response to a chapter draft I sent, I fear they might reject it but we'll see...)
LadyAmalthea, so sorry to hear your news, it must be really scary for you - I am hoping for a great outcome with your impending surgery take one day at a time and I hope you feel some comfort in knowing that folks here are rooting for you!! xx
Just a few more days from now, and I should have some answers...just gotta get through it!
Quote from: LadyAmalthea on August 21, 2021, 10:03:08 PM Just a few more days from now, and I should have some answers...just gotta get through it! Oh, the waiting... doesn't the time just crawl by when you need to know... Spoiler Keeping the news to yourself IRL is totally understandable, so I am relieved to know that you feel comfortable sharing it here, under some kind of anonymity, but still getting that little bit of mental support that is so important. I hope the kids behave themselves for you (I am guessing that you have not yet told them). Please update us on your results, if you feel that you need to. I do not know what "type" you have been diagnosed with, but can share that my Mum had the stomach one (diagnosed in her 50s); we were very lucky in that they caught it just before it breached the lining, so it was still contained. Mum still had her stomach removed, resulting in the equivalent of a gastric bypass. The side effect was, of course, significant weight loss, but Mum was cool with that! she had radiotherapy and chemo too; the first chemo round was tolerable & she kept her hair. On her second chemo cycle, they upped the strength, so she was very, very tired as the drugs did their thing; there was a bit of hair loss but it grew back - with a wavy texture & strangely darker? Mum had hardly any greys when she approached her 70s, whereas my maternal Granny & Great Granny where snow-white by that age! Isn't that strange? I hope that the answers are the best type of answers!! My trivial complaint - built a bunk bed for my kid who begged me to have a "sleepover" with her last night - currently typing this on my laptop form the top bunk, reliving my youth and fighting vertigo... oh and my butt is too big to wiggle down the narrow kiddy ladder, so instead I'm performing my own clumsy version of parkour & jumping on strategically-placed furniture to climb up/down
That's interesting about her hair, I have heard that hair can grow back differently!