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- Rajnish Duara, Thruvananthapuram, Kerala, 695011. India. (13 March 2005)
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Submission to multiple journals to reduce publication times: there should not be any confusion
- Dr.Satheesha Nayak (14 March 2005)
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Rajnish Duara, Resident Dept of CVTS, SCTIMST, Thruvananthapuram, Kerala, 695011. India.
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As an addendum to Dr Sinha's point of view I believe the onus should be on the author rather than the reviewer. But I don't agree on the fact that people should do multiple submissions. Radical Pedagogy for instance which deals with evolving stategies in teaching and learning in contemporary academia has strict rules not to allow multiple submission. I have a few suggestions: 1)Online submission should be made the sole norm for submissions. 2)There can be software conglomerating all the "indexed" journals in English literature for accepting the articles, i.e., if you are submitting in one journal there should be automatic barring of submission in more than 2 journals or even 1 journal. 3)There should be a definite time limit for acceptance or first corrections and ideally it should not be more than 15 days. In spite of fixed time lot of journals do not strictly follow it and once the time limit goes off the barring period should automatically become inactive till another submission is made. I am afraid this can lead to unusually high rejection rates, but the load on the reviewers can drastically come down. 4)These should be applicable to original articles as case reports take less time and has relatively less rejections. Competing interests: None declared |
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Dr.Satheesha Nayak, Selection Grade Lecturer, Melaka Manipal Medical College (Manipal Campus) Manipal, Udupi District, Karnataka State, INDIA. 576104
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EDITOR- There should not be any confusion regarding submission to multiple journals. There are answers for Prabhat Kumar Sinha’s questions. 1. According to me, the author is the one who has to decide how many journals he wants to send simultaneously for publication. 2. The author has to decide about which journal has to publish the article, in the case of simultaneous acceptance, because it is his work and he has a right to do so. But then if he once signs the final copyright transfer forms of one journal, he should not have the right to withdraw it no matter another best journal accepts his article in the due course. 3. Who says low rated journals won’t get the articles? First of all what all low rated journals and why are they low rated? The journal becomes good or best only when it has a fast communication system. If the journal keeps the articles for years together before publishing, it can not become the best journal. By publishing the articles very fast, the so called “low rated” journals also can get good numbers of articles for publication and become popular journals. 4. If the article gets rejected by a few journals, that doesn’t mean that the research is not original or it is substandard. Perhaps, it did not suit the journal or the readers or that particular journal. I may not be able to sell fish in vegetarian’s house no matter how many houses I visit. It is like that. There are different journals, looking for different types of articles so instead of wasting the research work unpublished, it is better to try in a few more journals when it gets rejected. 5. It is a very good exercise; I should say when a journal rejects any of the article, to direct it to another journal which publishes such research articles. This will save a lot of time of the author also. Competing interests: None declared |
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