  We conducted a questionnaire study aimed towards PhD students in the field of
visualization research to understand how they cope with paper rejections. We
collected responses from 24 participants and performed a qualitative analysis
of the data in relation to the provided support by collaborators, resubmission
strategies, handling multiple rejects, and personal impression of the reviews.
The results indicate that the PhD students in the visualization community
generally cope well with the negative reviews and, with experience, learn how
to act accordingly to improve and resubmit their work. Our results reveal the
main coping strategies that can be applied for constructively handling rejected
visualization papers. The most prominent strategies include: discussing reviews
with collaborators and making a resubmission plan, doing a major revision to
improve the work, shortening the work, and seeing rejection as a positive
learning experience.
