An analysis of the fate of 917 manuscripts rejected from Clinical Otolaryngology.
Charles H EarnshawC EdwinJ BhatM KrishnanC MamaisS SomashekarA SunilS P WilliamsS C LeongPublished in: Clinical otolaryngology : official journal of ENT-UK ; official journal of Netherlands Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology & Cervico-Facial Surgery (2017)
Rejection from CO certainly does not prevent subsequent publication, although the papers tend to be published after a lengthy delay and in journals with a lower impact factor than CO. When performing literature searches, it is important to search more than one database to ensure as many of the relevant articles are found as possible.