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Manuscript transferred from editor to editor [duplicate]
I recently submitted a manuscript for publication, and soon after received a message saying that it was "with Editor".
A few days later, I received a message saying it was "transferred to Associate ...
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I forgot to add preprint submission (BioRxiv) before the actual journal submission, what can I do now?
I was entrusted to do the entire submission process on my own (previously done by the PI) as a learning process, so I am learning by trial and error.
I was supposed to initiate and complete all the ...
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What does a managing editor do in scientific journal editorial board?
I need to contact the editorial board of a journal I recently submitted an article to about an issue, and I am having some thoughts as to who would be the appropriate person to contact.
I know that ...
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Can nice pictures be a deciding factor?
Let's say Paper A was recently accepted by a fairly prestigious journal (the top in my subfield). Now, there is a new Paper B, half of which gives a more detailed description of an object in Paper A ...
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When is it acceptable to issue an update to a manuscript that is still under review?
16 months ago, I finished a paper A and submitted it to a journal X. It is currently still under review. (For the journal's defence, it must be said that the paper is quite long - 89 pages).
This ...
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Dividing paper after Reject & Resubmit decision
In a recent manuscript, we used a first principles calculation A and used it to explain experimental results B. A and B are based on existing methods, the novelty primarily lies in combining them and ...
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How does a book editor's scientific reputation affect how the work of the chapter authors is evaluated?
When considering to publish a paper in a research journal, the journal's reputation itself is what people usually care about, rather than the editor's expertise and scientific status (although high-...
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What to do on a desk reject of a revised paper?
Since this is a longer story, let me first give some background:
We submitted a publication to a journal in the field of engineering. The article remained on the status “with editor” for more than ...
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What to do if the editor's decision is not in your favor?
I had recently developed a method and submitted as a manuscript to a journal. Out of four reviewers, three accepted the method and asked for some clarifications about the method:- 2 with major ...
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Contacting EiC on social media
I am in a very frustrating situation. My article is under review for almost 8 months and I didn't hear any response. The average review time for the journal is 3 months. The journal is highly reputed ...
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How to contact EiC when his emails seems like auto computer generated reply
One of my article is under review in reputable IEEE journal. The average time of first decision for this journal is 3 months. However, my article is under review for 6.5 months and upon my inquiry I ...
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Delayed manuscript publication by publishers
I am a PhD candidate in biology. I have a paper that I need to be published for me to graduate. It was accepted for publication in November 2017. I returned corrected proofs in December. In January ...
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Is there a website for rating and reviewing journals openly?
I always found remarkable that whilst the job of all my colleagues boils down to publishing papers, everyone seems so reserved and hesitant when it comes to discussing journals openly.
For instance, ...
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Referee recommends paper rejection with no further comment - how to react?
I submitted a paper to a journal, after 2 months and some days of review I get a rejection with a referee report "I find the paper not suitable for the journal", without any further comments and ...
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Editor invites many reviewers simultaneously
I have been reviewing for a particular prestigious journal in my field for some time. I noticed that the editor invites a significant number of reviewers (4-7) simultaneously. In most cases, not all ...
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How are reviewers rated by editors after a peer review proccess?
I am aware that some journals ask the editorial board to rate each reviewer, and use these ratings to select reviewers.
So, my question is: how does this rating proccess work? With respect to what ...
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How to deal with an unreasonable reviewer asking to cite irrelevant articles?
Two years ago, when I was doing my master’s degree, I was working on a computational project. My supervisor was well-known in the field and a highly reputed person. We were doing a great job, trying ...
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I am an editor for a lousy paper and I found a better algorithm than theirs. Must I share it with them?
I am handling a paper as an associate editor that proposed an algorithm that I find to be weak. In fact, I was able to show that a very simple, brute-force approach actually has a better running time ...
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Withdrawing a journal article after acceptance?
I'm a college student, and this summer I submitted an article to a non-profit journal, which only accepts submissions from college students. About a week ago I was informed that it was tentatively ...
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How do editors publish in their own journals?
I was invited to review a paper in which the journal's Editor-in-Chief is a co-author. I do not mind, but raised the question that this peer-review is no longer blind. The co-author can see who wrote ...
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What does "the manuscript has been removed from your Associate Editor Center" mean? [closed]
I received the following email:
Dear Prof. X:
You are no longer assigned to manage the review of Manuscript ID #####. The manuscript has been removed from your Associate Editor Center.
What does ...
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How to submit a manuscript in two parts?
I have a new manuscript to be published in an Elsevier engineering journal that has a maximum limit of 8000 words. I can't fit the content in this space. Fortunately, the manuscript can be easily ...
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Can I cite an accepted, pre-publication paper without DOI and the citations gets counted correctly?
My situation: I got two papers underway and the second one was accepted only days after the first one. The second one cites the first one and, naturally, I want the citation to be attributed correctly....
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Does the year of publishing for corrected proofs change in the final version?
I have an accepted manuscript published in an Elsevier engineering journal. The status of the article on its sciencedirect page is "In press, corrected proof". For now the article can be cited using ...
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What happens if your handling editor leaves the editorial board?
I submitted a paper to a journal and after more than one year I got a positive report. I revised the paper as requested by the referee but when I tried to submit the revised version I discovered that ...
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Do editors allow authors to respond to reviewers when a paper has been essentailly rejected?
I recently submitted a manuscript to a journal that focuses on short papers about software packages. One reviewer gave a very detailed (and helpful) critique of my software/paper with one major ...
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how to reply to a blind reviewer? [closed]
I have a paper under review. Two of the reviewers have accepted the paper. The third reviewer is ......This is the first time that I met such a blind reviewer. Most of his questions are superficial ...
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Should I thank the editor for accepting my paper?
My paper has been accepted after several rounds of revisions. The editor him-/herself gave quite detailed comments some of which were quite important. Should I thank him/her personally for the ...
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What to do when you notice that a value in your paper is wrong, once it is accepted but before it is published?
8 months ago, I have submitted my paper to the top journal in my field and finally it got accepted. Unfortunately, I have found one wrong table entry (Experiment Section), which is not a logical value ...
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Is it ethical to reject an article after acceptance?
I submitted a journal article to Forum: Qualitative Sozialforschung/ Forum: Qualitative Social Research back in September-October 2016. By February 2017, I received an R&R. April 2017, official ...
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