Post #4315139

Our latest submission to JCP has been rejected as “out of scope” because the editor has interpreted the paper as being “an application”. A curious decision, since the paper is on how to compute acoustic terms efficiently and with higher precision compared to how it's usually done, and there are several applications, not one, where we show how this improves energy conservation and numerical stability in general. The fact that the decision was taken by the editor *after* sending the paper out to reviewers, but claiming that it was made to avoid going through the review process, and that he only sent it to reviewers *after* I prodded him *after* the manuscript had been laying on his desk for months makes me doubtful of the, shall we say, correctness of the whole thing. Now the big question is: should we challenge the decision, or should we just drop it and go with a different journal? #publishOrPerish #academicPublishing