Paper rejected - remove it from CV and ignore it on application?

[theWUbear]

I had my first paper (2nd author) submitted a couple months ago - I wrote it on my CV under publications and wrote "submitted: Journal of blah blah" indicating that it had not been accepted yet.


Status as of today: Reject.

I assume this means it is no longer worth anything in terms of my application in June 2011 and I should also remove it from my CV? Thanks for the advice

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[DonutShot]

I'd keep it since most likely you are going to resubmit it somewhere else.

 

[WeAreNotRobots]

I assume this means it is no longer worth anything in terms of my application in June 2011 and I should also remove it from my CV? Thanks for the advice

Tentatively. Papers get rejected before being published all the time. What are the conditions of the rejection? Usually you get a lot of feedback from the reviewers and requests for further experiments. A single rejection does not usually mean the end of the project/paper. In fact you could always just choose to submit to another journal. A lot of this is ultimately up to the PI, so just hang around and see what comes of it.

 

[jc235693]

This happened to me. On my CV I removed submitted to Journal X and changed the paper to in preparation (assuming you plan on improving the paper and resubmitting it elsewhere). Then when it is resubmitted you can change it to submitted to that journal. You can also put it on an application when filling them out, again putting in preparation, just plan to be able to talk about it at an interview like what changes you're making and where you plan on sending it.

 

[RocketSurgeon]

Tentatively. Papers get rejected before being published all the time. What are the conditions of the rejection? Usually you get a lot of feedback from the reviewers and requests for further experiments. A single rejection does not usually mean the end of the project/paper. In fact you could always just choose to submit to another journal. A lot of this is ultimately up to the PI, so just hang around and see what comes of it.

It depends sometimes a paper for xyz reasons can get rejected with no resubmission other times peer review might send back some feedback and ask you to make some corrections before accepting it.

I would recommend you keep it on your resume (Possibly add a line with a status: in review/ undergoing revision/ will resubmit after corrections) something along those lines !

and Good Luck

 

[Frazier]

I had my first paper (2nd author) submitted a couple months ago - I wrote it on my CV under publications and wrote "submitted: Journal of blah blah" indicating that it had not been accepted yet.


Status as of today: Reject.

I assume this means it is no longer worth anything in terms of my application in June 2011 and I should also remove it from my CV? Thanks for the advice

Revise and resubmit.

If you got the perma-reject, submit to a different journal.

If all looks grim for resubmitting, ask your PI to let you present the paper findings somewhere on campus or at a regional event. At least you'll get something concrete for that CV.

 

[familyaerospace]

As someone else said, revise and resubmit.

Personally, I don't add anything to my CV unless it has been accepted.

 

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[theWUbear]

Awesome, thanks for all the input everyone