Dear Dr Rasha A Waheeb,

I welcome this query. I was Editor of measurement science journal for 5 years. Normally reviewers are specialist in the related area and their names are kept confidential throughout.

If reviewers are judicially not fair, then we refer to another reviewer. A minimum of two reviewers are considered for their opinions. In my tenure, no such unfairnesses happened.

SUMRao

I have reviewed for more than 50 journals and I cannot think of any examples that I have encountered of these problems.

I encountered such a reviewer who was biased in the review process and advised that our study be regected because the study was conducted in a rural setting.

Normally, all Journal’s editorial committee review carefully reviewers comments and if necessary they send it to another set of reviewers.

As an Editor, I have discussed many times with authors how to handle reviewers comments and suitably modify or incorporate in the manuscripts.

During 1992-94, one of my research papers published after 14 months without any changes.

All researchers, please remember that editorial

committee always try various possibilities before arriving for rejection that too with valid reasons.

This culture followed for more than 💯 years or more.

SUMRao

@all Dear Colleagues many thanks for your responses

Interesting question. In my experience the review process is robust given the role that the Journal’s editorial committee plays. In the post Covid-19 period, journal reviews appear to be taking longer and some journals are struggling to find willing reviewers. Have others experienced this problem?