As an associate editor (essentially a super-reviewer) at a society level journal (IF 6), I wish there were more editorial rejects. Some of the papers I get to review are really not good.
Below IF5 would be pretty bad. I review a bunch of papers for IF4ish journals but I would not consider sending my stuff there. I don’t think having those publications helps anyone’s career/R01 renewal.
DrugMonkey 
August 26, 2011 at 4:25 pm
What do you mean, returned without review? You mean the editor rejected it with no review?
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August 26, 2011 at 4:51 pm
Dude, get a fcuken grippe IF=5 means you sucke asse
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August 26, 2011 at 5:25 pm
If this happens to you, it is a probably a good time to look for one of those “alternative career paths.”
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August 26, 2011 at 7:57 pm
Exactly Isis. It came up on the Twitts. I was rawther surprised.
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August 26, 2011 at 8:50 pm
Wow. Dude.
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August 27, 2011 at 4:58 am
As an associate editor (essentially a super-reviewer) at a society level journal (IF 6), I wish there were more editorial rejects. Some of the papers I get to review are really not good.
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September 4, 2011 at 7:07 pm
Come on IF 5 is not that bad
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September 23, 2011 at 1:43 am
Below IF5 would be pretty bad. I review a bunch of papers for IF4ish journals but I would not consider sending my stuff there. I don’t think having those publications helps anyone’s career/R01 renewal.
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September 23, 2011 at 9:06 pm
And year those papers do help many people to get their grants. Amazing how wrong you can be, isn’t it? And yet so confident…..
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November 12, 2011 at 6:57 pm
Really? I don’t understand — I thought the NIH is supposed to be funding the best science.
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November 13, 2011 at 5:32 pm
Journal IF and “best science” have nothing to do with each other..
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November 13, 2011 at 5:38 pm
Ha, that’s an interesting idea. Please explain.
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