We submitted our paper for Physical review letter, this April. 2 referees commented on the paper, and having seen that comment editor decided not to publish our paper. Basically, this is not good news but this is normal. The more paper I wrote, the more our papers would be rejected. That is O.K. Let’s move on resubmit and the other studies.
As for this paper, we are going to resubmit. The given comments are strict but very helpful, so that I read carefully these comments and I read papers which are related to our paper. I actually, disagree with their comments. So, yes, we are going to counter their argument. I have been thinking and writing about it. That is fun. But, you know, this is also hard. I am a postdoc, I want to publish papers as many and soon as possible.
The study of this field has long history. So that, there are so many calculation and experiments have been made. I have been studied this system for 1 year, still I am not sure I am familiar with this study. But this time, by writing paper and countering argument. I am getting familiar with. This reminds me the process of publishing paper is very very important to my career. Of course, publishing paper is achievement though, also the chance to learn and understand physics.
The science has been made by humans. The humans make mistake. So that this review process is important. Someone gets results and writes the paper, that paper is reviewed by the other scientist. If they approve the paper deserve to publication, that paper comes out. We can share the knowledge. That is how science works.
I would like to increase the chance to write the papers and If I had the chance, I would like to do referee. I need these experience a lot more. I have to learn how these work, but I am already 30 years old, time is limited. Let’s write paper more, counter argument (sometimes, we don’t need), and do referee. Let’s move on.