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Thanking the editor of one journal for their comments — on a paper that is being resubmitted to a different journal
I submitted a paper to a top economics journal and got desk-rejected.
The editor was nice enough to provide a personalized rejection letter with constructive comments which really help.
As I revise the paper and submit to somewhere else, should I include this editor's name in the acknowledgement?
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There's no downside, so you might as well do it. "We thank so-and-so for helpful comments" ought to be OK.
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That would seem to depend on the nature of the advice. If it is advice on the content of the paper, then it might be important to do so. Even necessary.
But if it was advice on writing style or alternate journals and such, unrelate to the ideas in the paper, then it isn't likely to be as important. But it wouldn't be inappropriate in any case.
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Thanking the editor of one journal for their comments — on a paper that is being resubmitted to a different journal
I submitted a paper to a top economics journal and got desk-rejected.
The editor was nice enough to provide a personalized rejection letter with constructive comments which really help.
As I revise the paper and submit to somewhere else, should I include this editor's name in the acknowledgement?
511 bronze badge
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There's no downside, so you might as well do it. "We thank so-and-so for helpful comments" ought to be OK.
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