Rejection of rejection: a novel approach to overcoming barriers to publication

The title is appropriate as the high impact journals do not give statistics of rejection rates, and thus rejection should always be based on a sound and ethical peer review without publication bias, a well known phenomenon. ATK has authored a publication examining barriers for research among 2 medical faculties of prestigious medical schools in Delhi. They found a major barrier to be rejections making people lose interest in publishing research findings, ultimately resulting in low output. There is a need for serious introspection and corrective action to increase publication from developing countries by playing a proactive role in the form of mentoring.