Every researcher knows this story.
You submit a paper. You feel like a genius. You sleep peacefully for the first time in six months. Then the emails start.
Reviewer 2 Is the Darkness Itself follows Bhaskar Pandey through the entire, absurd arc of academic life
submissions, advisors, conferences, funding proposals, the viva, and the peer reviewer who asks you to compare your work with a paper that doesn't exist yet.
Told in short, sharp, painfully accurate chapters, this is a field guide for anyone who has ever refreshed Gmail four times in one minute, rebutted a comment they didn't agree with, or wondered if Reviewer 2 is, in fact, a supernatural entity.
If you've survived peer review and lived to tell the tale or if you're still in the middle of it this book is for you.
Perfect for PhD students, postdocs, professors, and anyone who has ever said "just get it published" through gritted teeth.