Your Paper Got "Transferred" Instead of Rejected

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Your Paper Got "Transferred" Instead of Rejected — What That Actually Means

An Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University scholar forwarded me a decision email that confused her completely: instead of a clear accept or reject, the editor offered to "transfer" her manuscript, along with its existing reviewer comments, to a sister journal within the same publisher's portfolio. She assumed this was a consolation prize for a weak paper and nearly declined out of pride. It...

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