After submission or after completion of review of manuscript, an editor-in-chief recommend the manuscript to another Journal which is to be launched or has no any indexing instead of desired Journal in their comments/review report. It becomes very difficult for the authors who are in known network of an editor-in-chief to withdraw their manuscript. Also, if authors accept the suggestion then in many cases authors are being humiliated by an editor-in-chief by holding the manuscript for unbearable period and not publishing it even in 2-3 years. In such cases the research scholars face lot of unnecessary humiliation. Put your comments for the editors as well as authors so that such situations should be avoided.
The EC has suggested a journal to the author. It's on the author to decide their own decision. The author could withdraw the manuscript at any time if they did not satisfy the review process period. We always hope EC and the editorial office should take the decision faster due to the relevance and novelty of the article will be effected to hold for the processes of review in a long time.
Dear Ram Ratan ,
It depends but it is not uncommon. See for example the following discussions here on RG:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Should-I-accept-journal-transfer-offer-or-not
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Journal-Editors-transferring-your-manuscript-to-another-Journal
There are quite a number of publishers that have such a policy:
https://www.elsevier.com/authors/submit-your-paper/submit-and-revise/article-transfer-service
https://authors.bmj.com/after-submitting/bmj-transfer-service/
https://www.springernature.com/gp/authors/transferdesk
and important is and I quote “And, you always have the final say over where your manuscript gets submitted and published.”. In other words, you can always withdraw and go to another publisher.
Best regards.
Ram Ratan I agree with both Rob Keller Shivendra Singh
it is unfortunate that time is wasted but your mission is to get your article published where it can be cited. It will rise and fall on its merits and how well you market it. No one is insulted, there is so much to publish in most journals that there has to be triage.
If you need exposure to a wider research audience of the full paper immediately why don't you upload a preprint here? And obtain a DOI number
Google ranks Researchgate preprints on a par with Springer or Taylor and Francis
just google:
a tale of two beers
or
Microbial Outsourcing
to see the power of preprints
Sincerely
Christopher YUKNA
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