Post-rejection strategy guides
Post-rejection strategy and transfer guides
Guides for understanding why manuscripts get rejected, where papers go next, and how to retarget without repeating the same reviewer-risk problem.
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- Journal Transfer Networks: Where Rejected Papers Actually Go After the First No
- Rejected from Academy of Management Discoveries? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Academy of Management Perspectives? Where Next
- Rejected from Academy of Management Review? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Accounts of Chemical Research? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from ACM Computing Surveys? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from ACM Transactions on Graphics? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from ACS Catalysis? The 6 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from ACS Nano? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Acta Materialia? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Advanced Energy Materials? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Advanced Functional Materials? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Advanced Materials? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Advanced Science? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Analytic Methods in Accident Research? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Analytical Chemistry? The 6 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Angewandte Chemie International Edition? The 6 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Angewandte Chemie? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Annals of Oncology? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Applied Catalysis B? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Applied Energy? The 6 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Applied Physics Letters? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Applied Sciences (MDPI)? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Applied Surface Science? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Applied Thermal Engineering? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture? Next Journals
- Rejected from Astronomy & Astrophysics? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Bioinformatics? Choose the Next Journal
- Rejected from Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Bioresource Technology? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Biotechnology Advances? The 6 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Blood? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from BMC Medicine? The 6 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from BMJ Open? How to Choose Your Next Journal
- Rejected from Brain? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Building and Environment? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Cancer Cell? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Cancer Letters? The 6 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Cancer Research? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Carbohydrate Polymers? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Carbon? Choose the Next Journal
- Rejected from Cell Death and Differentiation? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Cell Death and Disease? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Cell Metabolism? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Cell Reports? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Cell Stem Cell? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Cell Systems? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Cell? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Cement and Concrete Research? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Ceramics International? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Chemical Communications? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Chemical Engineering Journal? The 6 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Chemical Reviews? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Chemosphere? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Circulation Research? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Circulation? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Clinical Cancer Research? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Clinical Infectious Diseases? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Clinical Psychology Review? The 6 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from CMAME? Choose the Next Journal
- Rejected from Communications of the ACM? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Composites Part B? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Computers and Education? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Computers in Human Behavior? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Conservation Biology? The 6 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Construction and Building Materials? The 6 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Critical Care? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Current Biology? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Diabetologia? Choose the Next Journal
- Rejected from Earth-Science Reviews? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Ecological Monographs? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Econometrica? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from eLife? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from EMBO Journal? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Energy Conversion and Management? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Energy Policy? The 6 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Energy? The 6 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Engineering Structures? Next Journals
- Rejected from Environmental Health Perspectives? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Environmental Pollution? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Environmental Science & Technology? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from European Heart Journal? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from European Respiratory Journal? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Expert Systems with Applications? The 6 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Food Chemistry? The 6 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Food Hydrocolloids? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Frontiers in Immunology? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Frontiers in Microbiology? The 6 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Fuel? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Gastroenterology? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Genome Biology? The 6 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Geophysical Research Letters? The 6 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Global Ecology and Biogeography? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Gut? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Heliyon? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Hepatology? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from IEEE Access? The 6 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from IEEE Internet of Things Journal? The 6 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from IEEE T-ITS? The 6 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from IEEE TGRS? Choose the Next Journal
- Rejected from IEEE TMI? The 7 Best Venues to Submit Next
- Rejected from IEEE TPAMI? The 6 Best Venues to Submit Next
- Rejected from IEEE TPWRS? Choose the Next Journal
- Rejected from IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from IEEE Transactions on Image Processing? The 7 Best Venues to Submit Next
- Rejected from IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Immunity? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from International Journal of Biological Macromolecules? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from International Journal of Hydrogen Energy? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from International Journal of Molecular Sciences? The 6 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from JACC? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from JACS? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from JAMA Network Open? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from JAMA Oncology? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from JAMA? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from JBC? Choose the Next Journal
- Rejected from JCAP? Choose the Next Journal
- Rejected from JCI Insight? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from JCI? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Journal of Alloys and Compounds? Where Next
- Rejected from Journal of Biogeography? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Journal of Chemical Physics? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Journal of Cleaner Production? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Journal of Clinical Oncology? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Journal of Controlled Release? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Journal of Econometrics? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Journal of Economic Theory? The 6 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Journal of Energy Chemistry? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Journal of Energy Storage? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Journal of Experimental and Clinical Cancer Research? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Journal of Hazardous Materials? Next Journals
- Rejected from Journal of Hydrology? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Journal of International Business Studies? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Journal of Marketing? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Journal of Materials Chemistry A? Choose the Next Journal
- Rejected from Journal of Neuroscience? Choose the Right Next Journal
- Rejected from Journal of Political Economy? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Journal of Statistical Software? The 7 Best Venues to Submit Next
- Rejected from Lancet Infectious Diseases? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Lancet Neurology? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Management Science? The Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Materials? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Microbiome? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Molecular Cell? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Molecular Psychiatry? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Molecular Systems Biology? The 6 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society? The 6 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Nano Energy? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Nano Letters? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Nature Biotechnology? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Nature Cell Biology? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Nature Chemical Biology? The 6 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Nature Chemistry? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Nature Communications? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Nature Energy? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Nature Genetics? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Nature Human Behaviour? Choose the Next Journal
- Rejected from Nature Immunology? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Nature Medicine? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Nature Methods? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Nature Microbiology? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Nature Nanotechnology? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Nature Neuroscience? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Nature Physics? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Nature Protocols? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Nature Reviews Cancer? Where to Submit Your Review Next
- Rejected from Nature Structural and Molecular Biology? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Nature Sustainability? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Nature? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from NEJM? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Neuron? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from New Phytologist? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Nucleic Acids Research? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Organization Science? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Physical Review B? The 6 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Physical Review D? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Physical Review Letters? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Physics of Fluids? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Phytopathology? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from PLOS Biology? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from PLOS Medicine? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from PLOS ONE? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from PNAS? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Production and Operations Management? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Psychological Review? Choose the Next Journal
- Rejected from Remote Sensing of Environment? Choose the Next Journal
- Rejected from Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Renewable Energy? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Review of Economic Studies? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Review of Economics and Statistics? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Review of Financial Studies? The 6 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from RSC Advances? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Science Advances? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Science Immunology? The 6 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Science of The Total Environment? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Science Translational Medicine? Choose the Next Journal
- Rejected from Science? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Scientific Reports? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Small? The 6 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Solar Energy? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Technology in Society? Choose the Next Journal
- Rejected from the American Economic Review? The Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from The Astrophysical Journal Letters? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from The Astrophysical Journal? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from The BMJ? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from The ISME Journal? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from the Journal of Economic Perspectives? Where to Send the Idea Next
- Rejected from the Journal of Finance? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from The Lancet Oncology? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from The Lancet? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from the Quarterly Journal of Economics? The Best Journals to Submit Next
- Rejected from Transportation Research Part C? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Waste Management? Where to Submit Next
- Rejected from Water Research? The 7 Best Journals to Submit Next
- Why Manuscripts Get Rejected: The Real Reasons by Stage and Discipline (2026)
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- Journal submission guidesBroad journal-specific submission readiness and upload guidance.
- Pre-submission review guidesReadiness, novelty, scope-fit, and manuscript-review decisions.
- Journal selection guidesChoosing a realistic target journal before submission.
- Desk rejection guidesEditor-screen and early rejection risk by journal or field.
- Journal review time guidesFirst-decision timing, review duration, and delay risks.
- Journal status guidesUnder review, with editor, under consideration, and related statuses.
- Journal policy and metricsAI policies, formatting, APCs, acceptance rates, and journal metrics.
- Comparison guidesService, tool, and journal-vs-journal decision pages.
- Manuscript preparation guidesCover letters, abstracts, highlights, figures, and submission packages.