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Hi,
I have a problem. I worked on a paper in med school as first author that was reviewed favorably in a C/N/S specialty journal. My PI and I had a disagreement about the revision; my PI wanted to put in an extra thing that I felt detracted from the main innovation of the paper, but I ended up going along with it. This extra weakened the paper because it's half-baked, one reviewer fixated on it, and the paper ended up getting rejected despite being green-lighted by the other reviewers. Now, my PI wants to work on the extra with my co-authors and submit a rebuttal (which I feel like is a waste of time) but I want to take the extra out and re-submit to a different journal. Based on its journal review history, I feel like it can get accepted at a journal of equal IF.
For reference, I'm no longer at my PI's institution and I'll be working with new professors very soon.
What do I do? I feel like I'm losing a great paper & many months of work. I emailed my PI already and encountered polite resistance to re-submission. Options I'm thinking about:
1) let my PI add the "extra" over several months and hope for the best; the problem with this is that our field is very fast-paced, and several months is a long time
2) call my co-authors and ask them to talk to my PI
3) email my co-authors and PI a list of reasons why the paper should be re-submitted
4) work on related projects with new professors using data/methods I generated and/or developed for my rejected paper (so at least my work wouldn't be entirely wasted)
5) recreate & refine the major conclusions of the paper (it leverages publicly available data) and submit independently
Appreciate any advice the forum can offer.
Anyways, I spoke with my PI over the weekend and I'm happy we agreed to a good compromise.