This new journal doesn’t seem to have the haughtiness seen by some other journals. I hope they provide letters suitable for framing. I suggest everyone submit a paper here at least twice, because as we know, three’s a charm.
Here’s the journal:
See it here: http://www.math.pacificu.edu/~emmons/JofUR/
The founding principle of the Journal of Universal Rejection (JofUR) is rejection. Universal rejection. That is to say, all submissions, regardless of quality, will be rejected. Despite that apparent drawback, here are a number of reasons you may choose to submit to the JofUR:
You can send your manuscript here without suffering waves of anxiety regarding the eventual fate of your submission. You know with 100% certainty that it will not be accepted for publication. There are no page-fees. You may claim to have submitted to the most prestigious journal (judged by acceptance rate). The JofUR is one-of-a-kind. Merely submitting work to it may be considered a badge of honor. You retain complete rights to your work, and are free to resubmit to other journals even before our review process is complete. Decisions are often (though not always) rendered within hours of submission.
h/t to Bishop Hill
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Yikes! I sent them a paper which was so bad they accepted it!
REPLY: Did you send them one of Mann’s papers? Now THAT would be funny. – Anthony
Do we at least get a red-penciled (copy-edited) MS. back?
Journal of Universal Rejection….catchy. Back in high school I used to carry around a notebook of bad poetry I had written. I used to call it “The Blue Notebook”. I ran into it in a box in the closet a few months back. What a painful read! “Journal of Universal Rejection” would have been a better title!
Also, since the paper will not be published, you won’t have to worry about coming up with creative ways to stonewall people who want to see your raw data.
And don’t forget, all submissions are treated with exactly the same level of respect. No whining about favoritism is allowed.
(What a hoot!)
I suspect this is an experiment to see how many people they can get to link to this. And it’s very link worthy too!!!
Brilliant! I love it.
It is not clear whether submissions must be accompanied by complete archived data and any code, to enable replication. Perhaps the Journal doesn’t want to place such an arduous requirement on hard-working authors – or perhaps it just wants to keep to the standard practices of more famous Journals?
Sounds interesting, but…
will the rejected papers be peer reviewed?
Its just like submitting to Nature, only without the phony excuse of peer review.
I understand they have a dating service as well.
I was rejected before; now I’m even more rejected 🙁
Instead of UK pounds, maybe payment should be mandated in Aruban florin. Payments in any other currency would be … rejected.
What a hoot! LOL
Submit a paper?
OK – I submit the New York Times.
hehe
This sounds like my dating experiences in college. The gals I liked didn’t like me; the gals that like me I didn’t like. I’m still single.
Well, at least their publication costs should set a record low.
Just a cover page, now that’s a unique thought.
What a relief, you no longer have to write sensational…
…to think about selling magazines
We always used to submit to the Journal of Irreproducible Results. I gather it’s now over run with climate science articles.
I don’t need a journal submission to feel rejected. 😉
Back when I was in College; well we called it University back then; College was (snooty) high school; there was a select mebership club called the Society for Independent Intellectuals. It seems that the agenda of ALL of their meetings was simply to decide what the charter, and aims of the Society should be. I’m sure that it still exists; becasue for sure they haven’t decided what to do yet.
Maybe they could be paper referees for the JUR. I’m sure they could spread out the review process, until somebody had published a contrary paper in some other jounal; or even submitted one to the JUR.
You can then reference your never to be accepted paper as ‘Submitted for publication, JUR, 2011’. And through a tortuous, and or circular sequence of referrals, employ this technique to support previously refuted work in the next IPCC report.
(Sorry if this gives away the game plan Phil, Mike, and Gavin)
A perfect companion to the Journal of Irreproducible Results!!
http://www.jir.com/
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I hope this isn’t going to be yet another journal with a paywall.
Can I be a reviewer and pad my c.v.?