# @life_and_sunshine on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-04-06T14:35:37.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Nat ☀️ (@life_and_sunshine) — https://gondola.cc/life_and_sunshine

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Slide number 3 is why some articles don’t get published for a year or more even after they’re done 😂🙈 But I did learn so much from this process! 😊 Mostly to stand up to your supervisors when publishing for your PhD 🤓 You’re on a tight timeline and while they would loooove to publish everything high impact and you’re proud of the work you’ve done 👩‍🔬 spending more than a year to get something published it just a waste of time 🫢 it’s very likely that if one high impact journal doesn’t want your article and doesn’t recommend a different high impact journal, it’s not going to get published high impact 😅 That doesn’t mean your work isn’t valuable or won’t get published at all, it just isn’t at a high impact journal kinda stage yet 😊
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And sometimes you need a supervisor who steps in and tells the editor of a journal not to be so harsh 🧑‍💻 because they are not that high impact of a journal and can’t expect us to do years worth of extra work to publish with them 🧫 if we would do that, we would go back to the high impact journal 😅 and to our greatest surprise the editor actually agreed with us 🤯 and said you’re right, we asked for to much 🤣 and then they accepted our article 🥳 what a crazy ride that was 🤭
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I do want to say it never hurts to shoot for at least one high impact journal 😊 I thought my 4th article stood no chance at the European Heart Journal and would get a desk rejection 🙅‍♀️ but they actually took it under review 😍 which was such a boost in confidence after the last 2 papers 😂 so trying for 1 high impact is reasonable, trying for 5 is not 😉 you never know how interesting others might find your work!! 🤩
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#publishing #scientificjournal #publish #phd #science

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