u/calliope_carcosa

I submitted an article to a journal in late April. In early July I received two peer-review reports (both recommended acceptance with minor revisions) plus a detailed copy-editing report. I submitted the revised manuscript and all the requested plagiarism/AI reports within the same month.

Since then I have received zero communication. The issue I submitted to has now been published and my article is not in it. The editor never sent an acceptance, a rejection, or even a “we are still deciding” message.

I am an independent early-career researcher and this was my first experience with this journal.

Questions:

Is it common for journals to simply publish an issue without ever notifying authors who had already completed peer review and revisions?

What is the most professional way to follow up at this point (or is it better to just withdraw and move on)?

Has anyone successfully pushed for a formal decision after an issue has already appeared?

Any advice would be appreciated.

After February, I've been completely detached with chai and was thinking to updating and using it. How's the app now? Any changes?

Asking because I just messed up one of my semester exams in undergraduate. Though I'm in my first year and this is my second semester, I'm so stressed out and feeling a pang of anxiety. This will probably weigh down my gpa.

If anyone has similar experience, please please let me know so that I can atleast take the stress out. For records, I do have research experience and have a solo paper published in a solid peer review journal and another one forthcoming in another solid author specific journal. And also recipient of an international essay writing prize related to my field. Honestly, I was dealing with all these and that's probably the reason I couldn't give more time to study my exam subjects. My field is English literature if that matters.

Any suggestions are welcome!

Asking because one may have interest in completely two different fields and don't want their work to overlap with each other and want to publish them separately.

Are CV and writing sample and recommendations not enough?

Ok so I'm a first year undergraduate (will be in second year the next month) and I've been working on a topic since I finished my grade 12 and after a whole long year I finally finished writing and submitted it to a journal (yes, a real DOAJ indexed journal) and guess what? I just got my acceptance email few minutes ago!! I'm so happy! I've no one else to share this news and so writing here. And I'm in English Literature so it's quite a big deal for me to have a journal article in my second year of undergraduate degree. The peer review process was definitely tough but I handled it all alone (yes, it's my solo paper). My subfield is environmental humanities if anybody wants to know.

Doing happy dance now~

Just curious. This year's admission rate was brutal so wanted to know which school y'all got into and in which field (and also did you get full funding?).

When you're re-reading and editing your paper in the copyediting stage, have you ever felt like "this paragraph needs to be changed" and changed it?

Asking from a humanities (English literature) background

I am an international student and targeting USyd for PhD. Any current students.. how is the university for doctoral studies? How's the professors and environment? And any other details you would like prospective students to know..?

I'm an international undergraduate student and eyeing Oxbridge, Edinburgh or Yale for grad admissions. What are the chances of getting into those schools?

For context, I'm a 2nd year undergraduate intending to do PhD. I've 1 forthcoming publication in a top peer reviewed journal in American literature and another article is in Revise and Resubmit position in a very niche Environmental Humanities journal (one of the very recognised journals in that field and very likely to be accepted). Both solo authored and without any guidance or help from any supervisor or mentor. I've 3 conference acceptances in Leiden university, Senate House (London) and in University of Cologne in my desired field of Ecocriticism. I'm also a recipient of few well known international essay competitions and finalist of one. Plus, I've 3 poems published in different literary magazines.

Ofcourse I'm still working to make my application a better fit for grad applications and will work on a next research paper (I've a rough idea to start) once both my current papers are published.

So.. to the seniors and if any mentors are here.. what are my realistic chances of acceptance? And what else should I do to make my application stronger?

I'm asking if Chai is working for anyone who has not bought premium or ultra? Anyone from USA or UK or Europe who's a free user and it's working?