{"id":11195,"date":"2020-06-17T06:35:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T06:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/q_and_a\/why-do-some-editors-reject-papers-without-stating-the-reasons-for-the-rejection\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T19:11:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T19:11:45","slug":"why-do-some-editors-reject-papers-without-stating-the-reasons-for-the-rejection","status":"publish","type":"q_and_a","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/why-do-some-editors-reject-papers-without-stating-the-reasons-for-the-rejection","title":{"rendered":"Why do some editors reject papers without stating the reasons for the rejection?"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2100,"featured_media":33313,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[2376],"new_categories":[],"new_tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-11195","q_and_a","type-q_and_a","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reasons-for-rejection"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhy do some editors reject papers without stating the reasons for the rejection? | Editage Insights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We know that rejection of research papers is very common in academic publishing, but what really bothers authors is when their papers get rejected without knowing the reasons for rejection. The decision letter only informs the author about the decision, without any further explanations as to why such a decision was taken. Many editors do this. It has happened to me too a couple of times. Why do editors this? Why don't they care about explaining the reasons for rejection? This is completely unfair to authors.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/why-do-some-editors-reject-papers-without-stating-the-reasons-for-the-rejection\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why do some editors reject papers without stating the reasons for the rejection? | Editage Insights\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We know that rejection of research papers is very common in academic publishing, but what really bothers authors is when their papers get rejected without knowing the reasons for rejection. The decision letter only informs the author about the decision, without any further explanations as to why such a decision was taken. Many editors do this. It has happened to me too a couple of times. Why do editors this? Why don't they care about explaining the reasons for rejection? This is completely unfair to authors.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/why-do-some-editors-reject-papers-without-stating-the-reasons-for-the-rejection\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Editage Insights\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Editage\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-02-06T19:11:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Editage\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/why-do-some-editors-reject-papers-without-stating-the-reasons-for-the-rejection\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/why-do-some-editors-reject-papers-without-stating-the-reasons-for-the-rejection\",\"name\":\"Why do some editors reject papers without stating the reasons for the rejection? | Editage Insights\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/why-do-some-editors-reject-papers-without-stating-the-reasons-for-the-rejection#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/why-do-some-editors-reject-papers-without-stating-the-reasons-for-the-rejection#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/editage-insights-generic-banner_298.webp\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-06-17T06:35:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-02-06T19:11:45+00:00\",\"description\":\"We know that rejection of research papers is very common in academic publishing, but what really bothers authors is when their papers get rejected without knowing the reasons for rejection. The decision letter only informs the author about the decision, without any further explanations as to why such a decision was taken. Many editors do this. It has happened to me too a couple of times. Why do editors this? Why don't they care about explaining the reasons for rejection? This is completely unfair to authors.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/why-do-some-editors-reject-papers-without-stating-the-reasons-for-the-rejection#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/why-do-some-editors-reject-papers-without-stating-the-reasons-for-the-rejection\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/why-do-some-editors-reject-papers-without-stating-the-reasons-for-the-rejection#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/editage-insights-generic-banner_298.webp\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/editage-insights-generic-banner_298.webp\",\"width\":656,\"height\":336},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/why-do-some-editors-reject-papers-without-stating-the-reasons-for-the-rejection#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Q&A Forums\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/q_and_a\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Why do some editors reject papers without stating the reasons for the rejection?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/\",\"name\":\"Editage Insights\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Editage Insights\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/editage-insights-logo-1-scaled.webp\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/editage-insights-logo-1-scaled.webp\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":324,\"caption\":\"Editage Insights\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Editage\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/Editage\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Why do some editors reject papers without stating the reasons for the rejection? | Editage Insights","description":"We know that rejection of research papers is very common in academic publishing, but what really bothers authors is when their papers get rejected without knowing the reasons for rejection. The decision letter only informs the author about the decision, without any further explanations as to why such a decision was taken. Many editors do this. It has happened to me too a couple of times. Why do editors this? Why don't they care about explaining the reasons for rejection? This is completely unfair to authors.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/why-do-some-editors-reject-papers-without-stating-the-reasons-for-the-rejection","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Why do some editors reject papers without stating the reasons for the rejection? | Editage Insights","og_description":"We know that rejection of research papers is very common in academic publishing, but what really bothers authors is when their papers get rejected without knowing the reasons for rejection. The decision letter only informs the author about the decision, without any further explanations as to why such a decision was taken. Many editors do this. It has happened to me too a couple of times. Why do editors this? Why don't they care about explaining the reasons for rejection? This is completely unfair to authors.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/why-do-some-editors-reject-papers-without-stating-the-reasons-for-the-rejection","og_site_name":"Editage Insights","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Editage","article_modified_time":"2025-02-06T19:11:45+00:00","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_site":"@Editage","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/why-do-some-editors-reject-papers-without-stating-the-reasons-for-the-rejection","url":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/why-do-some-editors-reject-papers-without-stating-the-reasons-for-the-rejection","name":"Why do some editors reject papers without stating the reasons for the rejection? | Editage Insights","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/why-do-some-editors-reject-papers-without-stating-the-reasons-for-the-rejection#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/why-do-some-editors-reject-papers-without-stating-the-reasons-for-the-rejection#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/editage-insights-generic-banner_298.webp","datePublished":"2020-06-17T06:35:49+00:00","dateModified":"2025-02-06T19:11:45+00:00","description":"We know that rejection of research papers is very common in academic publishing, but what really bothers authors is when their papers get rejected without knowing the reasons for rejection. The decision letter only informs the author about the decision, without any further explanations as to why such a decision was taken. Many editors do this. It has happened to me too a couple of times. Why do editors this? Why don't they care about explaining the reasons for rejection? This is completely unfair to authors.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/why-do-some-editors-reject-papers-without-stating-the-reasons-for-the-rejection#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/why-do-some-editors-reject-papers-without-stating-the-reasons-for-the-rejection"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/why-do-some-editors-reject-papers-without-stating-the-reasons-for-the-rejection#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/editage-insights-generic-banner_298.webp","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/editage-insights-generic-banner_298.webp","width":656,"height":336},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/why-do-some-editors-reject-papers-without-stating-the-reasons-for-the-rejection#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Q&A Forums","item":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/q_and_a"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Why do some editors reject papers without stating the reasons for the rejection?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/","name":"Editage Insights","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/#organization","name":"Editage Insights","url":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/editage-insights-logo-1-scaled.webp","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/editage-insights-logo-1-scaled.webp","width":2560,"height":324,"caption":"Editage Insights"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Editage","https:\/\/x.com\/Editage"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/q_and_a\/11195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/q_and_a"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/q_and_a"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/q_and_a\/11195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11195"},{"taxonomy":"new_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/new_categories?post=11195"},{"taxonomy":"new_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/new_tags?post=11195"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=11195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}