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Friday, 5 June 2009

Congratulate me! :-D

I am now officially an accepted and soon-to-be-published author!!
It feels gooooooooood! :-DDD
Dudududu! Dudududu!

A summary for those who's forgotten the story:
  • April 2006: finishing master degree (the paper is based on the master thesis)
  • Autumn 2006: start writing paper
  • Spring 2007: start PhD and keep working on paper - realise that should add quite some work to what was done during master degree
  • Summer and Fall 2007: keep writing paper (and getting very fed-up)
  • Early Nov 2007: submit paper (yay!)
  • Early Jan 2008: receive a 7-page referee report, although very justified and well written there's a lot of work to be done..
  • Jan 2008: start doing corrections and more work to the paper according to referee report
  • Summer 2008: have been working on referee report for 1/2 year and starting to feel the pressure from PhD to have other results than a master degree paper, plus the corrections are taking so long and see no end to things anymore - decide to let it rest for a little while
  • Fall 2008: paper is resting..
  • Early 2009: it's been a year since received referee report and supervisor points out that journal might not want to receive a re-submission after more than a year since received referee report - becomes desperate and writes journal
  • Jan 2009: journal says ok but re-submission should not come later than end Feb 2009
  • Feb 2009: works on paper like crazy and manages to re-submit within end of Feb (yay!)
  • March 2009: re-submitted paper sent to referee
  • March-May 2009: hears nothing from journal so decides to write them and ask - it's been 2 months since re-submission - turns out referee didn't get the re-submitted paper in Feb and so it's re-sent to referee early May
  • Early June 2009 (a week ago): receives second referee report containing only minor changes to be done (double-yay!!)
  • Next day: implements changes from second referee report
  • 3 days later: receives "ok" from both co-authors and re-submits paper
  • another 1 1/2 days later (today): receives email from scientific editor that paper is accepted! yeyeyeyeyeyyyyy!!!
Big astronomy world here I come! :0)

2 comments:

  1. Congratulations! Getting articles published is always a pain, but this is insane! I'm so glad it's finally done. Now on to #2... :-)

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  2. Yup, I'm soon to finishing my first PhD project actually leading somewhere and will write it up when all the analyses are done! :0) Hope that process will be a bit shorter..!

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