应用物理方面的研究,4月19号投了NC,25号通知送审,昨天收到编辑的据信。
据的原因是文章是基于组内2012年初的一篇理论仿真文章,创新性不足,这点两个审稿人都提到了。但是这篇文章有部分理论还是很新的,同时实验做得也很完美,效果什么的是目前最好的。不知道这样申诉的成果率有多少?
Your manuscript entitled "******" has now been seen by 2 referees, whose comments are appended below. In the light of their advice I regret to inform you that we cannot publish your manuscript in Nature Communications.
You will see that, while Reviewer #1 in particular finds your work of some interest, both referees nonetheless raise substantive concerns that cast doubt on the advance your findings represent over earlier work and the strength of the novel conclusions that can be drawn at this stage. In particular, they both discuss the degree to which this work advances our understanding compared earlier work, including ref. 33. Unfortunately, these reservations are sufficiently important to preclude publication of this study in Nature Communications.
We appreciate that, with further work, it may be possible for you to address the technical concerns these referees raise (indeed, I have little doubt that you could), and that nothing in what they have said need necessarily prevent the publication of this work in some forum. However, I am afraid that none of their comments allows us to conclude that it provides the sort of significant conceptual advance in general understanding that would be likely to command the attention of our diverse readership. We therefore feel that it would find a more appropriate outlet in a more specialist journal, rather than Nature Communications.
I know that this decision will disappoint you, especially in view of the positive recommendations of Reviewer #1, but I should explain that we do not ask referees to say whether or not they think that a paper belongs in Nature Communications (the determination of which is a solely editorial prerogative). Instead, we ask them to tell us specifically what they feel to be the paper's contribution, and what its significance might be, and based on these comments and our own editorial criteria we decide whether publication in Nature Communications is appropriate. In this regard, although Reviewer #2 discusses the suitability of your manuscript for Nature, we feel that their editorial comments in this case apply equally to Nature Communications.
I am sorry that we cannot be more positive on this occasion and thank you for the opportunity to consider your work. |