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Do I need to mention an incompetent referee in Conflicts of Interest (or comment)?
Facts:
About 18 months ago I submitted a paper claiming the result previously published by Michael is false.
The first referee used details in Michael's paper to defend Michael's points, trying hard ...
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Awkward situation with editor several month after submission: advice
I am observing from some distance the following situation.
Two young mathematicians -- call them A and B -- submitted a paper to a quite strong journal and indicated a much senior colleague C as a ...
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Is a paper more likely to be accepted if one of the authors is an associate editor for the journal?
I'm about to submit my first scholarly manuscript to the top journal in my field, which has an acceptance rate of 20-25%. One of the co-authors on my paper, besides being generally well-known in this ...
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Should I still submit a manuscript to a journal if a member of the editorial board is advancing a competing theory that is incompatible with my work?
I have completed (my first) manuscript, which falls well within the scope of a particular journal.
However, a member of that journal's editorial board (or, to be precise, the editor's student) is ...
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Do journal editors disallow paper from college X to be reviewed by someone from college X?
What is the general opinion among editors about whether my paper should be submitted to review to academics from the same University/department? Will this ever happen? If it does happen, isn't this ...
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