Béla Vizvári , I understand your concern. Journal editors do behave unethically. Many rational explanations can be given to justify and support their behavior, but only victims understand the cruelty done against them. I have also experienced similar things that you have experienced, and probably all researchers experience this cruelty. Yes, we can not exclude any single of them, in any field of research. All of us are victims to some extent. Let's accept and learn from the experience and be hopeful and confident about our work.

Interesting discussion. Regards Béla Vizvári

You can contact the main editor or publisher.

Regards

GB

The problem is that the publisher doesn't do anything. Furthermore, you shall not get closer to the publication. Journals should be punished somehow.

If the work is impactful and worthy of publication, submit it to another journal and watch the citations soar over the years, if number of citations exceed those of the iniital journal the work was rejected from, it's their loss.

Yes. And the wasted time is the loss of the author. Much stricter sanctions are necessary.

Béla Vizvári , I understand your concern. Journal editors do behave unethically. Many rational explanations can be given to justify and support their behavior, but only victims understand the cruelty done against them. I have also experienced similar things that you have experienced, and probably all researchers experience this cruelty. Yes, we can not exclude any single of them, in any field of research. All of us are victims to some extent. Let's accept and learn from the experience and be hopeful and confident about our work.

Am in line with Tarun Verma

Bela, recently a colleague of mine and I posted an item on ResearchGate on 'Waiting times' especially for articles with a reject decision. If some of the issues you have experienced are related to ours, I think there needs to be a wider conversation on how authors can begin to seek redress and where to do so in a proper manner. Thanks for sharing.