Comment by klustregrif
15 hours ago
> I've had papers sit in peer review for two years, get rejected
And for people who aren't in academia, lets just say the unspoken part: While one or more of the reviewers are actively trying to replicate the work so they can beat you to submission after rejecting you.
With the rise of pre-print archives is this still a problem?
Yes - for the high profile journals (Science, Nature): Once it's public, you can forget everything about getting it accepted there.