The Desk Rejection Nobody Warns Saudi PhD Scholars About
A colleague at KFUPM once showed me a rejection email that took eleven days to arrive after submission. No reviewer comments. No detailed feedback. Just a single line: "Outside the scope of this journal." He had spent four months on that manuscript. What stung wasn't the rejection, it was realizing the paper never even reached peer review.
This is the stage almost nobody talks about when they...