Jon's paper seeks to inform scholars about common reasons for internal editor review rejections, which will hopefully stop letters that start like this 'Dear So and So, Thank you for your submission. Our journal receives many more submissions than it can publish. Unfortunately, we are unable to publish your manuscript'.

Authors: Meyer HS, Durning SJ, Sklar D and Maggio LA

Publication details:

Making the First Cut: An Analysis of Academic Medicine Editors' Reasons for Not Sending Manuscripts Out for External Peer Review. Acad Med. 2017 Aug 1. [Epub ahead of print]

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