How to deal with manuscript rejections.

Rejections of manuscripts from scientific journals are extremely common, everybody gets their papers rejected, all the time! I discuss desk rejections and rejection after peer review, and what courses of action are available for these. In the end, some advice on how to deal with this constant rejection. #rejection #failure #academia #publishing

0:00 Everybody gets rejected!
0:48 Desk rejections (prior to peer review)
1:28 Rejection after peer review
4:53 How to deal with these rejections....

Matthias Rillig, professor of ecology at Freie Universität Berlin, chats about life in academia.

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