Primary Literature

• Aarssen, Lonnie W., Tom Tregenza, Amber E. Budden, Christopher J. Lortie, Julia Koricheva, and Roosa Leimu. "Bang for your buck: rejection rates and impact factors in ecological journals." Open Ecology Journal 1, no. 1 (2008): 14-19.

• Aarssen, Lonnie W., Christopher J. Lortie, Amber E. Budden, Julia Koricheva, Roosa Leimu, and Tom Tregenza. "Does publication in top-tier journals affect reviewer behavior?." PLoS One 4, no. 7 (2009): e6283.

• Björk, Bo-Christer, and David Solomon. "The publishing delay in scholarly peer-reviewed journals." Journal of informetrics 7, no. 4 (2013): 914-923.

• Bornmann, Lutz, and Hans‐Dieter Daniel. "Selecting manuscripts for a high‐impact journal through peer review: A citation analysis of communications that were accepted by Angewandte Chemie International Edition, or rejected but published elsewhere." Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59, no. 11 (2008): 1841-1852.

• Bornmann, Lutz, and Hans-Dieter Daniel. "The manuscript reviewing process: Empirical research on review requests, review sequences, and decision rules in peer review." Library & Information Science Research 32, no. 1 (2010): 5-12.

• Byrne, Daniel W. "Common reasons for rejecting manuscripts at medical journals: A survey of editors and peer reviewers." Science editor 23, no. 2 (2000): 39-44.

• Cassey, Phillip, and Tim M. Blackburn. "Publication and rejection among successful ecologists." BioScience 54, no. 3 (2004): 234-239.

• Dweck, Carol S. "Self-theories: their Role in Motivation." Personality, and Development (2000).

• Hassell, Hans JG. "Desk rejects widen inequalities within academia." PS: Political Science & Politics 54, no. 4 (2021): 699-702.

• Larson, Bradley P., and Kevin C. Chung. "A systematic review of peer review for scientific manuscripts." Hand 7, no. 1 (2012): 37-44.

• Rhodewalt, Frederick, and Deborah L. Sorrow. "Interpersonal self-regulation: Lessons from the study of narcissism." (2003).

• Spigt, Mark, and Ilja CW Arts. "How to review a manuscript." Journal of clinical epidemiology 63, no. 12 (2010): 1385-1390.

• Sugimoto, Cassidy R., and Blaise Cronin. "Citation gamesmanship: Testing for evidence of ego bias in peer review." Scientometrics 95 (2013): 851-862.

Books, Blogs, and Reports

• A Decade in Numbers - Editorial. Nature Materials 11, 743–744 (2012)

• Harzing How to avoid desk rejection in 7 steps (blog, accessed May 2025)