Fumbling towards transparency: the Royal Society’s “reject & resubmit” and submitted/published dates
Published in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
Author Mike Taylor
Regulars will remember that nearly two years ago, I reviewed a paper for the Royal Society’s journal Biology Letters , recommended acceptance with only trivial changes (as did both other reviewers) and was astonished to see that it was rejected outright. There was an invitation to resubmit, with wording that made it clear that the resubmission would be treated as a brand new manuscript;