If you are an early career scholar facing uncertainty about publications and responding to reviewers, I want to encourage you to revise and resubmit. You don& #39;t eat a porterhouse steak in one bite, so no matter how daunting it may seem... you can do this. One comment at a time...

I never wrote any pubs from my dissertation. Or my postdoc. I had no mentoring to do this. So when I wrote my first paper as an asst. professor - and I got back three reviews of "major revisions" - I was devastated. I took it as a sign I would never be published...

...because I didn& #39;t know how to do any better. And I had nowhere to turn for mentoring.

To this day, those reviews and that unpublished, unrevised manuscript still live in a filing cabinet in my office. My own personal scarlet letter of sorts.

You can do this. Don& #39;t give up.

Take 24 hours to be upset and doubt the reviewers. Then, ask for help from your advisor, from your peers. Revise. Thank the reviewer for offering a suggestion or a critique you had not considered. Revise. One comment at a time.