Abstract
Two questions have frequently been raised by authors: (1) can a rejected manuscript-one that was not invited back-be revised and resubmitted? and (2) can an author challenge the reviewers? The answer to these questions will depend in large part on editorial policies which differ from journal to journal and editor to editor. There are, however, some rules of thumb that can be noted. First, an uninvited manuscript should never be resubmitted unless it has undergone fairly substantial revisions. Second, if the comments are of category one or category four types, then no amount of revision will make the study float, and it should not be resubmitted to the same journal. When the comments are of types two or three, I was willing to reprocess the article, provided extensive and not just cosmetic changes had been made.
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