Dear collegues,
some medical journals (with a high IF) published articles of some Authors or study groups (always the same.....) more frequently and more easily than others .
For example.........I sent three manuscripts to a journal. After several weeks, I had to withdraw them because editor (or associate editors) had not read them. All these three manuscripts has been then published on other important journals, indexed on PubMed with good visibility .
Why is it possible ?
Is there a scientific lobby ?
What is your opinion about ?
Best regards.
Dear Ciro,
Thanks for your interesting question. Generally speaking, yes I totally agree with you that well recognized journals with high IF often publish articles from the authors who are already in contact with. However there is a bias here, as these authors are almost well known in a specific area (could be called as leaders), they conduct very good studies especially multicenter clinical trials with considerable fundings from internal and external funding resources. However a manuscript being rejected by a chief or associate editor without external review is really annoying and I can not understand that at all. In the field of Rheumatology, this is my strategy as a junior researcher to submit an article,
firstly I try Annals of the Rheumatic disease: because it has the highest IF and more importantly they respond quickly
then, journal of rhuematoogy (OXFORD), they respond quicky and a good thing is that if they reject an article they come with some comments that are mostly useful to revise the journal.
then Scandinavian Journal of rheumatology, as there is a chance to publish here since I know the editor.
then journal of clinical rheumatology due to high chance of acceptance, and good comments in case of being reject.
then BMJ Open (high chance of acceptance and good comments), Medicine (high chance of acceptance, good comments), Acta Rheu Port (very slow to respond, but good journal, good comments).
I always look at this website before I decide to submit an article: http://emeunet.eular.org/links.cfm?catID=5 (It is Eular recommandation).
Sincerely yours
Amir
Dear Amir,
many thanks .
In your list, there is not the journal to which we sent our three manuscripts........fortunately.
But is a journal recommended by Emeunet ...... (another form of scientific lobbing ?.......).
Some of these journals consider an Author as a good reviewer but their editors do not carefully evaluate his manuscripts. Is not that a contradiction?
My experiences are a bit different from yours. For example, the evaluation times of the Journal of Clinical Rheumatology are too long with "dogmatic" and not useful evaluations.
For the rest your considerations are useful and precise.....as always.
Ciro.
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