Timeline for answer to How to interpret this rejection email from Journal of American Math Society? Anything to read between the lines? by Kimball
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| Jan 12, 2019 at 10:14 | comment | added | Tommi | @user102868 Or maybe that particular reviewer happened to know that that particular paper is about similar methods, but does not know the literature about that method very well. | |
| Jan 11, 2019 at 19:16 | comment | added | user102868 | @PeteL.Clark : Its just one of hundreds of such papers written about a class of methods and its not even foundational for that class. Its actually trivial that my method does not belong to that class. I don't think its a must to cite that particular paper. It would look like a random pick, if I cite it. The reviewer could have suggested to just mention about these class of methods and say that mine was different from that. This would take only a line. Over all its a positive suggestion is what I am feeling. May be that particular reviewer may not have voted for outright rejection. | |
| Jan 11, 2019 at 18:48 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | @user102868: "Infact citing that reference in my paper would actually help my cause." Hmm, up until now I have been defending your right to resubmit the paper as is. But now you have me confused...if the citation helps your cause it means that it's (i) relevant and (ii) helps your cause! So you definitely should cite it, no? | |
| Jan 11, 2019 at 16:19 | comment | added | user102868 | So my conclusion is, the rejection is largely might be due to standards not being met, rather than the cited reference. Infact citing that reference in my paper would actually help my cause. | |
| Jan 11, 2019 at 16:17 | comment | added | user102868 | I have read that reference fully, and I am surprised that mathematically there isn't much to compare with my paper. Neither there is anything to compare in terms of theme, except to say that the suggested reference is an example of various traditional techniques being used in a field X (not mathematics), and that the theorems I have proved in my paper will give rise to tottally new techniques which overcome disadvantages of the cited traditional techniques. The suggested reference is not a math journal. | |
| Jan 9, 2019 at 16:32 | history | answered | Kimball | CC BY-SA 4.0 |