Hello everyone
PhD student here, research focus is on materials science condensed matter physics. Pure theoretical.
I recently submitted a manuscript to the journal of physics and chemistry of solids. It’s a Q1 journal according to scopus ranking. The review process was positive. However it was only 1 reviewer and the feedback was minimal. It was a very minor revision.
The journal has no negative feedback/discussions online. However I’m hesitant about continuing with the revision and this journal because I feel that the review process was very poor. Do you think that this is important aspect that I should consider ? Am I being a perfectionist?
Another concern to me is the idea of publishing in typical mid range journals. Especially in my field it’s extremely hard to get into those top 5% journals. So you can’t always publish there. At the same time, the lower end quartile journals have lots of papers that are questionable in terms of quality. I’m in this dilemma in the beginning of my career. I’m afraid that my work won’t be recognized (if it honestly should be) or seen as “trusted”, when publishing into these mid rank journals. Do you think that publishing in these journals is bad for a person academic reputation. I always aim to provide an honest reproducible non-inflated and precise work and I don’t want publishing in a specific journal to bias the message I’m working hard to build.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.