An editor on saying no: desk rejection as an act of respect
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After a decade in the chair, she argues that a fast, clear refusal serves authors better than a slow, hedged review. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, and the full dataset together with the code needed to reproduce every figure is deposited under a permissive licence. Limitations, including coverage gaps in non-English sources, are set out in the discussion.
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