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.
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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.
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