  What is the optimal order in which a researcher should submit their papers to
journals of differing quality? I analyze a sequential search model without
recall where the researcher's expected value from journal submission depends on
the history of past submissions. Acceptances immediately terminate the search
process and deliver some payoff, while rejections carry information about the
paper's quality, affecting the researcher's belief in acceptance probability
over future journals. When journal feedback does not change the paper's
quality, the researcher's optimal strategy is monotone in their acceptance
payoff. Submission costs distort the researcher's effective acceptance payoff,
but maintain monotone optimality. If journals give feedback which can affect
the paper's quality, such as through \textit{referee reports}, the search order
can change drastically depending on the agent's prior belief about their
paper's quality. However, I identify a set of \textit{assortative matched}
conditions on feedback such that monotone strategies remain optimal whenever
the agent's prior is sufficiently optimistic.
