I am a research scholar and I am writing research paper. Is it possible to get published in different journals? In such case DOI issue will be there. Please clarify.
Dear S. Feroz the duration of the peer-review process can vary between ca. 3 weeks and 1.5 years, depending on the journal, the reviewers, the manuscript quality etc. If you feel that you are waiting too long, you can contact the Editor directly. If this doesn't help, you can of course withdraw your submission. However, as pointed out by Shaista Bano you always have to withdraw first and then resubmit your manuscript.
An article should not even be submitted to multiple journals simultaneously according to the rules. During the submission process, there is a statement that authors agree to declare, telling that the manuscript is not under consideration of another journal.
However, I have seen the same exact content with the same exact examples for verifying the proposed method being published three times, just with different titles and very slight changes in some wording.
It is scientists' responsibility to be honest but also editors' and reviewers' responsibility to evaluate carefully.
Meanwhile, it is allowed to use the content from your own previous papers as long as the new submission has new content in a remarkable extent. For example, if you build up some knowledge based on the previous content, you can refer to your own previous paper or partly repeat the content if needed to have coherent text, just like similar to referring to other papers. (In that case, it is still not allowed to copy the figures straight - unless you have permission from the journal - and not allowed to copy the text straight. Rewriting is required based on the context of the new paper.)
To sum up, the same paper cannot be published in multiple journals. (Of course, if a journal rejects the paper, then it is possible to submit it again to the same or to another journal with or without modifying depending on the reason of rejection and comments, but not submitting simultaneously). In addition, each paper should have new content in a sufficient extent.
Dear Sanjay Kumar in the case of reputable journals, submitting a manuscript simultaneously to two different journals in an absolute no-go! During the electronic submission process you are normally asked a question like "Is this manuscript being solely submitted to this journal? If you answer this question with NO your submission will not be accepted. Don't ever try this!
First of all, let me inform you that publishing of the same paper in multiple journals is considered a serious unethical affair in the field of research. And, if a researcher is doing this, she/ he may be inviting some serious problems. I have seen in my life, the journal editors in such cases informing about this to the body or bodies to which the author is connected to.
Secondly, I would say that even a submission (forget publishing) of the same paper to multiple journals is considered unethical in this field.
A researcher pursues a research to bring in some sort of progress and development in this world. Unethical submission or publication may hinder the process of that progress and development.
One of our paper got struck up after first revision. Almost six months over, no updates nor response for reminders. Though it's not advisable to put same paper for another Journal. It's not clear how long we should wait in this situation?
Dear S. Feroz the duration of the peer-review process can vary between ca. 3 weeks and 1.5 years, depending on the journal, the reviewers, the manuscript quality etc. If you feel that you are waiting too long, you can contact the Editor directly. If this doesn't help, you can of course withdraw your submission. However, as pointed out by Shaista Bano you always have to withdraw first and then resubmit your manuscript.
Dear Dr. Shaista and Prof. Frank, I appreciate your valuable views and suggestions. We will wait for some more time and then withdraw by informing to Editor (if there is no response) to resubmit in new journal.
Yes Professor, I agree with you and well aware about this issue. Many thanks for your valuable suggestions. Happy to read your answers/suggestions in all the discussions that I am following. Best regards.
Dear Sanjay Kumar It is very unethical to publish the same paper in different journal. It is academic dishonesty to do that. What I know is you can present the paper in a conference and elicit for comments to improve the paper and publish it in a journal.
Dear Humphrey Danso yes, you can of course present your research work at a conference and submit an Abstract to the conference proceedings. The Abstract is not counted as a regular publication. Then you can make a full paper out of this work and submit it to a renowned journal. This situation is completely different from the unethical situation where you submit the same paper simultaneously to two different journals.
Dear Bayan Khalaf this is a perfect short answer on RG as it has only the required 2 characters. In this context please see the following thread initiated by Hermann Gruenwald:
Dear Bayan Khalaf, Md. Alauddin and Ihab Alfadhel RG promises those RG members who ask questions on the platform that they will receivwe "high-quality answers from experts". I'm not sure is "No" or "absolutely no" fall into this category... Your answers would certainly be more helpful if you provided some kind of explanation and / or rationale.
It is unethical to intentionally publish same paper in different journals. During submission, Journals always require you to declare that the paper is not currently submitted to another journal for publication
Dear Sanjay Kumar I think it has become very clear from the previous answers to this thread that publishing (or better: trying to publish) the same manuscript in two different journals is not only unethical but normally impossible. During the electronic submission process, serious journals will always ask you" Has this manuscript been submitted solely to this journal?" When you answer this question with NO, the submission process cannot be completed (although I personally never tried this out). Moreover, always keep in mind that such a behavior could seriously impair your academic career. So just let it be!
I have had a few very similar articles printed in Hydrocarbon Processing and The Oil and Gas Journal. I am not sure exactly how this happened. I think they requested an article, I wrote something and the office manager/secretary sent them off. I think I saw them each 1 more time for minor edits before they were published.
The work should be original, which precludes its publication in several journals. But there are also conferences where presentations of fragment of the work is allowed. Of course, I omit conferences where works are published in a special edition of the journal.
This is unethical and no serious journal will send any article prior to quality and plagiarism check for review talkless of publishing. Also, a good researcher cannot think of that. So please devoid of such an act. It can happen only with those predatory journals that are just looking for money by anyhow. It is uncalled for and should be avoidedm
Miroslaw - "Of course, I omit conferences where works are published in a special edition of the journal." I'm wondering what is bad about publishing articles resulting from a conference in a special issue of a journal? Personylly I think that this is an ideal constellation. Conference proceedings or conferences abstracts often do not count as regular papers as they are not peer-reviewed. However, it is absolutely perfect when the conference organizers make arrangements for publication of a special issue of a good journal. Then the manuscripts can be submitted and peer-reviewed in a regular manner and published as full-fledged papers.
In order to be accurate and honest, you should not submit the same article to different journals at the same time, and also not allow co-authors to do so. If one journal refused article - you can try to send it to another journal, but it is better to think about why the refusal occurred and try to improve the text before sending it again. In general, the author, as a rule, signs the author's declaration, in which he confirms that the article is original, new, and is not being published elsewhere.
Hi I know it is not a very standard question but I had a doubt so I raised it. and as this is researcher's forum, so I learned it by the responses from my worthy colleagues and friends.