I have faced many times in my long life with biased and sometimes simply boorish attitude of editors.
I will accept publication rejection if the manuscript contains incorrect results, results that were obtained earlier by another researcher or results that disprove the second law of thermodynamics. This, however, has never happened before.
It's about something else: the manuscripts are rejected by the editor under a far-fetched pretext. For example, the Editor of the journal “Petroleum Geoscience” writes that the article does not correspond to the subject of the journal.
How can an article written at the Department of Geophysics of the Petroleum Institute not correspond to the subject of the journal?
Is it normal for a journal editor (NRR Springer) to reject a manuscript because it has been unable to find reviewers for 2 months?
I think that journal websites, like hotel websites, should have a column where the authors' opinion about the editorial board is indicated, and the evaluation in points.
After all, the journal is a hotel for our scientific results (articles).
Best Regards,
Mikhail Markov, IMP, Mexico.
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