Finally the Green's function paper was published in Journal of Applied Physics. This is the second time I am publishing here, following the magnetic Johnson noise paper of 2008 which has been quite popular. This time, the manuscript was originally intended for and submitted to IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, but it was rejected there in the hands of reviewers from the traditional MR engineering community. As an aside, I should start a website that posts rejected papers along with the rejection comments. It will showcase some egregious peer reviews. Anyway, publishing in JAP for the first time in 15 years made me realize a few things.
(1) The journal's management seems to have been improved (although my memory of 2008 is faint), with fast processing and reasonable editorial policies (e.g., manuscript formatting). I can see the efforts by the journal (or publisher) to promote citation ("automatically recommend your paper to 10 people"), increase revenue (pdf file now has first-page advertisement), and prevent illegal mirror sites (watermark on the right side of every page)
(2) The journal layout and fonts are generally very readable and agreeable. The equations are definitely looking nicer than in say NeuroImage, and the word count per page is suitable for equation-heavy contents.
(3) Most importantly, the review focus was more on technical/methodological rigor than historical context and application prospects. In a sense this is akin to the approach of say Scientific Reports, but without collection of a publication charge.
Overall, applied physics journals appear to be a good vehicle for MR physics and engineering papers in an era of proliferating APC's (article processing charges) and dubious peer reviews.
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