Questions tagged [editors]
Questions about the roles and responsibilities of editors, who decide what papers are accepted into peer-reviewed journals.
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One-line negative review
I'm a beginner researcher. Several months ago I submitted an article to a seemingly reputable journal and recently received a decision letter. The decision was to reject my article. There were no ...
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What can/should I do when finding several flaws in a published paper that I have not authored?
I recently read a paper that was full of small errors that should have been pointed out during peer review but very obviously hadn't. Issues like the following
insufficient information in the methods ...
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Manuscript in 'Decision in Process' for 6 weeks and no response to email requesting update
I seem to be having a recurring issue with a journal. I submitted a manuscript in April of this year that was sent out to peer-review and the reviews were completed relatively quickly. The manuscript ...
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over 2 weeks with editor after major revision [duplicate]
I would like to know if it is normal 2 weeks after major revision my paper is still with editor and he doesn't send it to reviewers. I'm concerned that maybe my revision wasn't satisfactory.
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Asked to suggest referees 9 months after submission: what to do? [closed]
I submitted a research paper to a mainstream journal of my math subject domain in December 2023. I did not hear anything from them since, so last month I reached out to them. My editor informed me ...
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Are the peer reviewers of a journal article allowed to voice surprise to the editor at a "minor revision" decision?
Are reviewers allowed to express surprise to an editor? I was shocked by the ‘minor revision’ decision for an article I reviewed. Reviewer 1 was positive and listed a few minor points.
My review and ...
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The Zentralblatt asked me to review a worthless paper, what to do?
I am an amateur mathematician who at age 64 finally became published in January. As a result, review requests started coming in.
The first two were from two different journals. Both papers were well ...
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what are the conditions that make the status changed from Reviewing Completed to Reviewers Assigned? [duplicate]
I got major revision and the status was under review for the 2 reviewers from 10/7/2024 and go Reviewing Completed in 26/7/2024 but the status become Reviewers Assigned after sometime.
Does that mean ...
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Is it unfair for a journal to change a decision on an accepted paper if it is later found to be too derivative of the author's previous work?
I edit a journal and we have recently started using similarity checks. We have a paper that we accepted, but before we published it we found that it is very similar to previous papers of the author.
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My result is accepted in a journal as an errata, but the editors want to change the authorship
We submitted a result claiming that a paper by an associate editor (of the same journal) contained a proposition that is proven mistaken by us, and furthermore, the proof of a theorem is incomplete.
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Will the editor of the issue handle the paper?
I have a question about the handling process for submitting paper to an issue
Will the editor that handle the paper be the the editor of the journal or the issue ?
the statuses are
submitting the ...
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An editor thinks a correction should be posted on the author's website rather than published. Is he sticking to the academic ethics?
I had a casual chat about a famous paper in mathematical economics with an editor of a journal different from where the paper was published. We agree that some of the mathematical results are mistaken....
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What happens if two reviewers have incompatible recommendations for a paper?
I submitted a paper to an IOP journal (classical and quantum gravity) two or three months back and two reviewers were assigned. One of them was ok with the paper and recommended it for publication but ...
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How can I get a job reviewing math or comp sci articles and books in advance of publication?
I spend a great deal of time identifying and figuring out how to fix mistakes in published papers and specialized books. Time and time again an author's careless error has sent me down a rabbit hole. ...
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Continuous article publishing
Is continuous article publishing (CAP) a good thing?
Many journals are making the transition to CAP.
It seems to alleviate costs for publishers. Also, I suppose it is a natural thing, in view of the ...
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Is it normal that the editor says "the referee report is for editor's eye only so I cannot share it with you"?
I recently receive an editorial letter that is unwilling to share referee reports. The letter explicitly mentions the existence of such report but the editor don't want to send it to me.
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Time to decision/uncommunicative Journal [duplicate]
My co-authors and I submitted a paper to the Journal of Ichthyology and Herpetology at the end of February. We have not heard anything from them about the stage of our submission in the review process,...
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Why do journals refuse to see substantially revised manuscripts after rejection?
I have seen many journals that refuse to even see the revision of a manuscript once it was rejected.
But here is the thing: Reviewers provide recommendations to what should be changed; editors then ...
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Letter for journal's editor about the importance of the paper under review
I have sent one of the Ph.D. (2019) chapters to a journal two months ago. Today, I found a preprint (Feb 2021) of one of the strongest key authors of my field. Her preprint talking about a similar ...
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Should the first editorial board position be a "big shot"?
I was recently invited to join the editorial board of a Wolters Kluwer journal.
The journal is decent and publishes 4 issues per year. It has been in the field for about 15 years.
The journal is China-...
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Can I connect with the editor on social platforms during manuscript submission or wait until the process is completed?
Suppose that I am an author of a manuscript that was submitted to a journal. During the submission process, I have came across the personal account of the editor handling my manuscript on social ...
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what does this status mean please? [duplicate]
I submitted a paper to a journal and it was under review for 2 months but now the status changed to reviewers assigned then it became under review .. what does that mean please
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How to publish independently in top journals?
I am a second year PhD student. I also worked on topics outside my thesis. The results are good and I want to submit it to top journals. However, I am surprised by the attitude of most of the editors ...
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Is it appropriate to provide editorial oversight for a paper authored by someone who plans to move to your institution?
I see some journal editors handle the papers authored by their colleagues. It is usually not allowed to handle papers authored by colleagues in the same institution. After a deeper check of one paper, ...
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Does my contribution to an editorial project merit a more formal acknowledgment?
For the past several years, I've worked remotely and without pay in an archive in order to assist a colleague (who has actually left academia) with a book project. The project consists of compiling an ...
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Editor invites many reviewers simultaneously
I have been reviewing for a particular prestigious journal in my field for some time. I noticed that the editor invites a significant number of reviewers (4-7) simultaneously. In most cases, not all ...
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How long does it take a journal to assign an associate editor? [duplicate]
I submitted my paper more than a month and a half ago and the journal still hasn't assigned an editor yet. It passed initial validation, though. I found out that for others, it generally takes 1-2 ...
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Asking editors for similar journals
This is a straighforward question. I have written a paper specifically for a particular journal which has rejected it and wished me luck publishing this elsewhere (reviewers also expressed interest in ...
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Are editors of top-tier journals biased in their decisions by the authors names and affiliations?
Are editors of top-tier journals biased in their decisions by the authors names and affiliations?
Once the editors receive a manuscript for a potential publication, they obviously read the names of ...
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Attaching previous reviews - avoiding pitfalls of desk rejection? [duplicate]
I just got rejected during a review process in a prestigeous journal. The paper has received a lot of valid criticism, which (to my best current knowledge) could be incorporated in its further ...
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Speed of review with respect to the paper's quality
Sometimes the review process can take a long time, sometimes it can be very short. I suppose that one of the important factors determining the speed of review process can be the quality (i.e., the ...
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Can I just phone an editor if he never answered back via email?
Last year, I submitted a book manuscript to Springer. The academic editor told me that it looked great and that he would send it for peer review and would contact me in due course. Both the publisher ...
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Is it fair to desk-reject a manuscript because it breaks relativity?
Every so often a journal I edit receives papers with some kind of claim that, if true, would break mainstream physics. For example, a paper could claim that waves in dark matter can travel at v ~ 1014 ...
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Editorial manager system and Firefox password manager
This is maybe a rather special specialist question... I review and hold Associate Editor positions for various Elsevier and Springer journals that use editorialmanager.com (actually I believe both ...
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Politely suggesting to the editor that they should invite more reviewers
Elsevier provides a tracking system through which authors can see how many reviewers have been invited, how many have accepted to review the paper, and how many have completed the review. If more than ...
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Is it rude to tell an editor that a paper I received to review is out of scope of their journal?
I received an article for review from a journal I did not review for before and honestly haven't even heard of so far. It is not a predatory journal, just a journal that until quite recently had a ...
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The editor mixed up the reviews and rejected my paper based on the reviews of a different paper! Now they're denying everything. How to proceed?
I have heard lots of stories about rejection based on unfair reviews, etc. But this is a new one for me, and I wanted to seek the Academia SE's advice...
We recently submitted a paper (let's call it A)...
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Do editors pretend that someone asked for you to review to make acceptance of review requests more likely?
I received a review request from a journal I have previously reviewed for. In the request, they stated that the authors suggested me to be one of the reviewers, which I found slightly odd as the topic ...
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What does the Editor-in-chief do with the Associate editor recommendation? How much is him/her involved?
I am aware about the typical workflow of a journal. Still, I am very curious about the "last steps" before an article is accepted. Let's assume one successfully passed peer review and the ...
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"Decision in process" after the median number of days from submission meaning
My manuscript went from "With the Editor" to "Decision in Process" after I submitted it to a journal, which had a median decision time of 10 days. After 18 days the status changed ...
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When is it useful to wait for the resubmission of a revised manuscript?
I recently attended a conference and witnessed an interesting discussion between a PhD and his supervisor. The supervisor recommended his student to "wait with the re-submission until the very ...
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How to handle situation in which the article has been "Awaiting reviewer assignment" for 5 months?
I submitted an article 5 months ago to a journal. Since then, the article has been jumping between "Waiting for Reviewer Assignment" and "Contacting Potential Reviewers" (10 ...
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What are Honarary Editors?
As in the title: what is the function of an Honorary Editor on a journal's editorial board, as opposed to regular editors?
I have seen this a few times in a journal and I suspect it is supposed to add ...
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Journal Paper Review (Computer Science) taking so long? How to proceed?
I submitted a journal paper to Springer's SN Computer Science Journal.
Below is the time line
18th Nov, 2021 --> Manuscript Submitted
15th Feb, 2022 --> Editor Decision (Major Revision)
1st ...
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Editor does not respond after a month of completion of second revision [duplicate]
Our paper underwent a second minor revision after the first major revision. This second revision has been completed by the reviewer 1 month ago, yet the editor has not even seen this report. I know ...
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Is it possible to edit name in a paper at the stage of pre-proof correction after acceptance?
I am a part of a collaboration in an article. The paper is accepted in a journal and we are asked to check the pre-proof version. Now I see initial part of my name is missing. For, example if my name ...
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Journal editor demands changes to article published online two years ago
Three years ago I wrote a manuscript and submitted it to a well-known journal in my field. After a few months, I received the reviews, which were extremely positive, but suggested minor improvements. ...
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desk reject without reason - email to ask?
I recently had a paper desk-rejected (i.e., by the editor without review). I was disappointed sure, but more annoyed because no reason was given at all (verbatim email with redactions):
I am sorry to ...
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Does a research paper of a Phd student get equal attention in top category math. journal?
I am a PhD student in pure mathematics from a lower-developed or developing country in the Asia region. I have two published articles in average-category peer-reviewed journals (one is in the Q2 ...
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Paper submitted to a Nature sub-journal with 3 weeks without updates, what can it mean? [duplicate]
I'm a postdoc working in the field of cancer genomics. Recently I submitted my work to a Nature sub-journal. It quickly went from "manuscript submitted" to "editor assigned" and &...
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