Nice piece from Nature on how to recover from getting a paper being rejected. If I may offer my own bit of advice, there are three points that have been helpful to me:
- Decide wether this is salvageable or whether it needs to become a book chapter.
- If it is salvageable, then begin the rewrite by writing a mock letter to the review team. Reviewers are not stupid, so it is important to make mindful choices about which points to address and which to ignore.
- In no case send the paper as is to another outlet, even if it is a lower tier journal.