Everyone wants the high-impact journal, and almost nobody prices the attempt. A paper can sit in review a year and still get rejected. In fast fields, that delay is not neutral; it is a real cost.
- Desk rejects are the cheap outcome (binned in days); three rounds of major revisions then rejection is the expensive one - High-impact editors want breadth your narrow result was never built for; some papers are better as strong specialty papers - Aim on purpose: broadest, most surprising result to the flagship; solid careful work where the right fifty people read it - Compare real numbers in a ranking database, not vibes - The manuscript must arrive formatted to spec; desk rejects happen over reference styles more than editors admit
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