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Wake up, babe, new COPE guidelines just dropped!
Version 3 of the Retraction guidelines and brand new Expression of Concern guidelines are out now. I co-authored the long-awaited EoC guidelines and v.2 of the Retraction guidelines […]
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Academic Stewart Manley proposes a system that "allows a researcher to submit to multiple journals at the same time—increasing the chances of getting speedier initial journal interest and allowing researchers to choose between interested journals—but then avoids overlapping review by requiring […]
Reviewer 2 Must Be Stopped! on Facebook Nate Joseph 4d Me submits to "top tier" journal in my field. Editorial desk: sends back. "Please include a title". Me looks. The title is there. Puts in giant bold font: TITLE: "my title". Resubmits. Editorial desk: sends back, please add title to manuscript. Me: emails editorial. "I am confused my manuscript has a title." Editorial board emails back. "Please add title". What da hell! Update: The editorial board admitted this was a mistake and has passed on the paper for review. Updated again: The paper was rejected by editorial for undisclosed reasons.
Publishing shouldn't be a Kafka novel! Editorial offices need to sort themselves out. One problem is outsourcing to companies that use undertrained staff working from inflexible scripts.
#JournalPublishing #JournalEditing #EditorialOffices #EditorialScreening #AcademicPublishing #Kafkaesque
I guess it's for the best that our authors can't hear my comments when I edit their texts. #academiclife #journalediting #somanymistakes
