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Ron Fedkiw

A Note on Rejected Papers

All too often young researchers get discouraged when they receive peer reviews that are incorrect, misinformed, or all too often merely intended to silence the authors and their ideas. Personally, I have always been amazed that academics who devote their lives to producing new information actually work to censure and diminish the work produced by others, and often take pride in doing just that. As time goes on, one learns to distinguish between those in academia who love the work and those that have instead turned academia into some sort of career aggressively optimizing their stature at the expense of the community as a whole. For young researchers this can be quite daunting, but I strongly encourage you to stick to your ideas and goals and the pursuit of what interests you. Remember, the content of your paper and the value of its ideas are not diminished because it was rejected from your preferred venue. The content of the paper itself does not change because of the name of the journal printed on the upper corner of the page! To emphasize this, I decided to list my 3 most cited REJECTED papers along with their google scholar citation counts:
“A Boundary Condition Capturing Method for Multiphase Incompressible Flow”, 462 citations, rejected from J. Comp. Phys.
“Simulation of Clothing with Folds and Wrinkles”, 400 citations, rejected from Siggraph
“Fast Surface Reconstruction using the Level Set Method”, 381 citations, rejected from Siggraph

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