BMJ  2005;330:603 (12 March), doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7491.603-b

Letter

Submission to multiple journals to reduce publication times

Summary of responses

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EDITOR—Torgerson et al's idea of submission to multiple journals to reduce time to publication was mostly met with reservations.¹ But some unanimously favoured it to counteract the inefficiency of journals in dealing with submissions, increase competition, and instigate more academic coordination and cooperation.

Reservations included the increased workload of journal staff and reviewers. An "acceptable" author's fee might be a way to overcome this, or even a ranked system of fees to be paid to all journals being targeted for publication. Jutta Loeffler, a postdoc in New York, was concerned that all submissions would end up on the same reviewers' desks anyway. Another concern was that if an article were submitted to many journals it might be accepted by many—so what would happen to low impact journals?

Multiple submissions might then lead to "unethical pressures" and efforts to stall lower impact journals until a higher impact journal had . . . [Full text of this article]

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