Francoise. It is difficult to know why the reviewers rejected your paper actually without seeing their remarks, and of course these are confidential. I think you should point out the difficulty of structure determination from powders, rather than asking editors and referees for "leniency", which is almost like an apology. You could emphasise that in your paper, saying why the structure has not been solved with single crystals. For the reasons you have cited, few crystallographers will have had experience in solving, or even refining, structures from powders, and reviewers might even assume that solving crystal structures (from single crystals) is now largely routine. You have to say why that is not yet true for powders. You should be comforted to know that many crystallographers also dismissed Rietveld refinement when it first appeared, and that it took some time for it to be applied to x-rays after the original work with neutrons. Crystallographers are a fairly conservative lot :-) Regards,. Alan.
On Fri, 2 Jun 2023 at 16:31, francois Goutenoire < francois.gouteno...@univ-lemans.fr> wrote: > Dear Rietveld users, > > Quite a strange question : what is the best journal to publish structure > determination from powder ? > > I/We are publishing structure determination from now more than 25 years > (see our work below). > > But I have the feeling that it is more and more difficult to publish these > articles, in fact I think that the editor and the reviewers do not have the > knowledge of the difficulty to solve structure from powder. > > In some recent case, we had a huge difficulty to publish the paper on > La34Mo8O75. > > See below our response to an editor after the reject of our manuscript : > > https://perso.univ-lemans.fr/~fgouten/Structure_Determination_Powder > > I will be pleased to ear a comment to this feeling. > > Best wishes, François > > -- > ********************************************************************************************* > Pr. Francois GOUTENOIRE > e-mail: francois.gouteno...@univ-lemans.fr > Tel: 02.43.83.33.54 > FAX: 02.43.83.35.06 > Institut des Molécules et des Matériaux du Mans > IMMM - UMR CNRS 6283 > Elaboration et Caracterisation des Composés Cristalisés (E3C) > Université du Maine - Avenue Olivier Messiaen > F-72085 Le Mans Cedex 9 > FRANCE > ********************************************************************************************* > Formation Rietveld > CNRShttps://cnrsformation.cnrs.fr/diffraction-des-rayons-x-sur-materiaux-polycristallins?axe=135 > Formation EDX CNRShttps://cnrsformation.cnrs.fr/fluorescence-x-edx?axe=135 > Formation SAXS et Réflectivités pour couches minces et matériaux > nanostructurés.https://cnrsformation.cnrs.fr/caracterisation-des-materiaux-nanostructures-par-diffusion-des-rayons-x?axe=135 > Bibliographiehttps://scholar.google.fr/citations?hl=fr&user=qC-lmN4AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&authuser=1&sortby=titlehttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5339-3002 > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Please do NOT attach files to the whole list <alan.he...@neutronoptics.com > > > Send commands to <lists...@ill.fr> eg: HELP as the subject with no body > text > The Rietveld_L list archive is on > http://www.mail-archive.com/rietveld_l@ill.fr/ > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > -- ______________________________________________ Dr Alan Hewat, NeutronOptics, Grenoble, FRANCE <alan.he...@neutronoptics.com> +33.476.98.41.68 http://www.NeutronOptics.com/hewat <http://www.neutronoptics.com/hewat> ______________________________________________
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