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Advice wanted for course of action on unethical editor behavior, story in the comment.
June 7
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Nils Reinton, Hope Leman, Konrad Förstner and 7 other people liked this
In December, a scientist close to me submitted her manuscript to Analytical Chemistry. Only after the handling editor was contacted by the authors in March, she (the editor) rejects the paper saying that it wasn't of sufficient general interest and suggested submitting to a more specialized journal (she did send it to one reviewer). Two weeks later, on march 20, the editor submits her paper on the same topic (actually using the technology from the same company) to the same journal (Analytical Chemistry)! AC published this paper yesterday.
- Björn Brembs
I thought one could write a message to the main editor asking for the editor in question to be kicked off the board and the rejected MS to be published. Is that realistic?
- Björn Brembs
do it
- Christopher Harris
There's a very clear "paper trail" of what happened. At the very least present this information to the main editor. Your friend's paper should be published, along with an addendum/erratum to the bad editor's paper.
- The Neurocritic
Similar thing happened to my wife.
- Paulo Nuin
Oje, do it and keep all evidence you have. Confidentiality is not just a buzz-word. Anyway, be careful with what you put in the public for not ending up in a libel law situation - http://ff.im/3xJml
- joergkurtwegner
Yes, seems the right thing to do.
- Daniel Mietchen
needs to be done in a formal letter with copies of the references. that definitely can't stand!
- Christina Pikas
Such things happen to my friends and colleagues basically every year. Given how these situations were solved, I'm not sure kicking the editor off the board is realistic. At the very best, editor's paper will be silently retracted because of some non-related issue. I know cases in the fields with lots of competition where an author before submitting a manuscript to the top journal, establishes a fast track review line in other journal - and s/he suspects this kind of "unethical" behaviour is going to happen, the manuscript goes to another journal and it's published in the matter of days.
- Pawel Szczesny