The paper was submitted to a special issue and was perfectly tailored to it. However, the rejection letter did not come from the SI Guest Editors. Instead, it was a generic statement indicating that "As there is a high volume of high-quality manuscripts submitted to International Journal of Qualitative Methods, we must often turn away papers that might be publishable but which we do not have sufficient space for, or which fall outside the journal’s scope." So, it appeared as if the submission did not reach the SI Guest Editors before it was rejected.