Had one paper with 5 reviewers: 4 thought it was pretty good or awesome, the 5th not... With about 7 pages' worth of criticism that were mostly invalid. I resubmit, with modifications. That same week a paper of virtually the same study (not plagiarized, just coincidentally the same study) is published by a heavyweight 6 hours up the road from us. So reviewer 5 says, even if the modifications are good enough, this has already been done by a bigger, better researcher and is therefore not original. Paper gets rejected outright.
So my supervisor does some digging, and guess who reviewer #5 just so happened to be...
So my supervisor does some digging, and guess who reviewer #5 just so happened to be...
Frack academia