Dear Dr Hassan

I agree with all my dear colleagues and unfortunately not only the name but also the nationality of author(s) usually affected .

Best regards

Although none of the editors will admit this {for ethical consequences}, but it happens. Some editors believe that the name of the author will enhance the impact and the visibility of the journal.

Let me add the other side of the picture, may be some editors reject a paper with good potential for publication because of the name of the author!

I wish if there is a way that even the editors kept blind from the authors identity until the paper is fully reviewed.

Dear Dr Hassan,

I do also agree with the views of Prof Dr Muayyad, Generally for the review purpose authors name is not disclosed to reviewer. This is done for the ethical reasons. It is not always true that authors name will make some influence to publish. As we all are human being, we cannot avoid the bias from the name of author. Some times author name will also influence to publish thinking article should be high quality and it will also increase the impact of Journal.

Cheers

Hom

I agree with Dr Muyyad and Hom. I think that some editors reject a good paper for publication because of the name of the author!

I too agree with Dr Muayyad Ahmad and Dr Hom Nath Chalise....Have a great day!

-Selvam...

Dear Dr Hassan

I agree with all my dear colleagues and unfortunately not only the name but also the nationality of author(s) usually affected .

Best regards

Dear dr.Muayyad,thank you so much for your worthy answer.

Dear dr.Hom,thank you so much for your vital answer.

Dear my colleagues ,dr.Daniel,dr.Selvam and dr.Parisa,I appreciate your kind contributions.Have a nice day.

some times not only the name but also the nation (e.g. first world country/second world country

Thank you so much dear Md Iftakharul muhib for your answer.

I am a reviewer for many years in many journals, never happen to me or to the editors that affected with the name of authors. Please colleagues be careful to generalize effect of name and nation on the reviewing process because that affect on junior researchers. I have many articles were rejected that does not make me feel differentiation but is a cumulative experience to learn from.

Best regards

Aly R Abdel-Moemin

Thank you so much dr.Aly for your answer.

Dear Hasaan, I agree that it is happening, and especially the name of the author and the country. I have experienced such a situation. The paper was written poorly, it refers to something already researched in the literature, no frame, no methodology, no citing style ... Naturally, I suggest the editor to reject the paper and that was it. Then, I have noticed that the same article was published in a journal as an original paper. This makes me question myself and my understanding though I state even right now, that the paper has the weakness I had described. Then, I have been in position to be rejected by one journal with the explication that the paper would not have a broader readers since it is about the Macedonian language and they instruct me to publish in Macedonian journal. However, all the journals declared that they are international in their scope. For the situation to be more funny and odd, other international accept the paper with some minor revisions. I agree also that some reviewers have not experienced such examples yet, and do understand that this affect the research. Thus the reviewers should also be carefully when rejecting the papers which have scientific value only because they refer to a small number of readers. How do the editor know that my paper will not have broader public. Maybe the scientific community will be interested in what happens to a so called small languages that are not the languages of the globalization like English, for example. All of us can not be specialists only for the English language issue. Why I have to write and make comparison with the English (It is suggested to me several times)... To sum up, the reviewers should be very careful. It happens to me that the editor decides that the paper does not deserve to be send to the reviewers.

Kind regards,

V. Janusheva

For sure affilation and author(s) name give an impact (+ or -) at least to editors. As some editors think that high rank institutes and we'll known names are more trustable and will atract the readers, thus the work will be cited. But this not means the young researchers loss the hope no they can do it but needs more effort. On the other hand, I havenot used to built my decision on a paper under my revision based on the author name.

Dear Prof Alshamsi ,

I hope not , name should not have anything to do with the kind of work and its presentation .

I will tell you my experience , people do this I have seen such attitude from Asian or rather immigrants in Canada in an academic set up .

For me , I guess it is kind of work that is important . Junk work does get acceptance in most of the cases but not in Nature or scientific America ....

Dear dr.Violeta,thank you so much for your valuable answer.

Dear dr.Gomaa,thank you so much for your respectable view.

Dear dr.Aparna,thank you so much for your respectable opinion.

Thank you so much dr.Mutasem for your opinion.

Dear Dr. Hassan,

The well know authors usually have more readers than other unknown authors, their papers are cited in other researchers' papers as everyone has an impression that they have a high level of knowledge-ability and their papers always present big contributions. That is why the reviewers sometimes accept their papers even without reviewing it and regardless the quality of the contents. But in case of unknown authors, reviewers deal with the submitted manuscript strictly since they are not sure about the quality of the paper, but this doesn't mean that unknown authors get rejected.

In my opinion, the authors name plays a vital role in publication of the article.

Dear Dr.Hadeel ,thank you so much for your vital answer.

Dear dr.Sheela,thank you so much for your worthy answer.

In most journals, the name of the researcher remains unknown, but is known to the scientific committee of the journal, and here the journal policies govern initial acceptance or initial rejection

Thank you so much dr.Houda for your valuable answer.

hello

Yes I think so where the name of the famous author has a significant role in evaluating the search

regards

The name and the nationality of author(s) as well .

In theory, not.

Regards!

Unfortunately, name of the author, nationality and number of paper he/she publish in any good journal played a vital role.