Timeline for Is this ethical: "I like your paper and if you submit it to Journal X, I will be the reviewer"
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| Mar 30, 2016 at 11:50 | comment | added | svavil | @FujiNEC If person B knows that the article is a good fit for the journal, he should say so. Next, if the article indeed got to be reviewed by B AND B feels that he's biased towards A, an ethical move on B's side would be to ask the editor to find another reviewer, but that is not A's concern. | |
| Mar 30, 2016 at 3:27 | comment | added | Jeromy Anglim | I guess it depends on what we were comparing things to. In general, if a colleague just mentions that a journal would be a good fit for your paper, then most of the time, this would not imply anything about whether the colleague was going to be a reviewer. And if the colleague says nothing about being a potential reviewer, then this speaks less to a potential desire to provide an unreasonably favourable review out of either an intrinsic desire to help you or out of some potential other benefit that might come from helping you. | |
| Mar 30, 2016 at 1:49 | comment | added | FujiNEC | Is it more ethical if Researcher B says only "I think your paper is good and it would be a good fit for journal X" (as you suggest), and does not mention her belief that she is very likely to be the reviewer? I think it relieves Researcher A of any ethical issue. Also, Researcher B is less likely to be accused of doing something unethical because some information is being omitted. However, does it make Researcher B's action more ethical? | |
| Mar 29, 2016 at 23:58 | history | answered | Jeromy Anglim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |