Nov. 13th, 2007

lihtox: (physics)
So in record time, my paper was turned down by Physical Review E. It failed the "is this physics?" test, apparently, as they recommended a "more specialized journal on traffic". It makes perfect sense, but it has depressed me overmuch nevertheless. It feels like an attack on my professional identity, like my credentials as a physicist have been called into question, etc etc. Being in the middle of a job search right now makes this rejection even harder.

It has nothing to do with any of this, of course, and hopefully I will shake this off soon. There have been papers published in PRE before about traffic and whatnot, but I can see how those papers had some physics content, while mine probably does not. I know someone in transportation engineering who can probably suggest an appropriate journal for the paper, and I've had several engineers say that the work is novel. It'll probably be published somewhere.

Still. *SIGH*

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