So, I just read this. It seems like good and important work. It should never have been rejected from any. It the snobbiest of prestige journals. Ok, but, that said, if I were an editor I would ask for a number of revisions on this, deal (1) structure, and (2) clarity. 1/
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There are a number of "confusion points" in the paper, where it's either not clear what you mean, or more commonly, I wanted more information that's either not given or presented much later. You demonstrate that appear to have a method that portable... 2/
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And will dramatically improve gerrymandering. This is fucking dynamite. But the paper feels like a compsci paper in which you expect the reader to do the hard work of reading between the lines and pouring through the methods. Other fields have different norms. 3/
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Most social science folks want a *narrative*. Tell them a story about the problem and what your solution is and why it works. Another norm is to put methods before the results so you can be clear about what you did. This can be a sketch, with greater detail in an appendix. 4/
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The old adage is: tell them what you're going to tell them, then tell them, then tell them what you told them. Finally, I want to reiterate that it's bullshit that this work was rejected. Any paper worth salvaging should be given the opportunity to do so. 5/
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This is potentially revolutionary work (or would be if the US had a functioning federal government). It kills me that editors and reviewers could see that. I'll end with some journal recommendations. Good luck!
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Royal Society Interface Royal Society Open Science Journal of artificial societies and social simulation Scientific Reports Journal of Conflict Resolution Journal of Mathematical Sociology Journal of Theoretical Politics
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Thanks!
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I agree with Interface. Also, EPJ data science.
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I really appreciate all your input, @psmaldino. Thanks for the recommendations to you both! 
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