BMJ  2005;330:602-603 (12 March), doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7491.602-c

Letter

Submission to multiple journals to reduce publication times

Idea needs further evaluation

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

EDITOR—Torgerson et al moot the idea of submission to multiple journals to reduce publication times, but their article raises more questions than it provides answers.¹

Firstly, to how many journals would authors be allowed to submit their article, and who will decide the number of simultaneous submissions—the authors or the journal?

Secondly, in the event of simultaneous acceptance by many journals, who would decide that the accepted article should remain with which journal—the authors (who always want their article published in the best journal) or the journals themselves (which might fight for the article if it is really high quality)?

Thirdly, what would happen to low rated journals (which may not be getting the article in first place)?

Fourthly, if the article were rejected by all the journals to which it was submitted, should the authors be allowed to resubmit it simultaneously to a couple of journals—again wasting . . . [Full text of this article]

Department of Anaesthesiology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum-695011, Kerala, India pksinha@sctimst.ac.in

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