Recently, one of my manuscript was rejected unknown to me without my consent the publisher transfer my manuscript to another Journal though that is amazingly interesting but I want to be sure that this is not only particular to me. Do you have similar experience(s)? Was your paper finally published by the new Journal?
I await your response.
Warm regard.
Dear it is not proper to transfer your manuscript without your consent.
The case is not new, but the usual thing here is that they inform the corresponding Author. It is most times as a result of non-suitability of the manuscript to the Publisher in terms of field of interest. However, the second Publisher is usually a member under a parent body covering the two Publishers.
If the Authors are not preinformed, the bad side is that the following Publisher may be of low acceptability to them and in most cases of lower impact factor. All in all, it is doubftul that the Authors are not preinformed, it could be that the message is spammed.
I think authorisation is needed before the transfer as pointed @Emmanuel Ifeanyi Obeagu and Kamoru
Paul Odeniran , I think so too untill latter I discovered that it is a new development that once your paper is rejected the Publisher helps to transfer it to a Journal within their portofolio. Such messages comes in this format........ "Springer Nature is keen to help you find a suitable journal to publish your manuscript from our portfolio of over 2,600 journals" and ......... '' One of our Submission Editorial Advisors will be in touch shortly to help you find the most relevant journal for your manuscript .
Kamoru A. Adedokun Yes, you are right but the information may not reach the corresponding author until they have gotten a suitable Journal. However the corresponding author may see the transfer decision from the decision bar in the submission taskbar.
Transfer policy of rejected articles is not for all journals. It's been in vogue for a while now. I first experienced it in 2016.
Paul Odeniran That is correct, I think it is now common among SCI Journals and Publishers with many Journal in their portfolio (with different hierarchy) such that when Journal with high Impact Factor rejects an article, the article can be transferred to a Journal of less impact factor.
This happens when you send your paper to a journal which is not in your area of specialization, I think this is your mistake not their. I'm a co-editor in chief of SJAR journal, also an editorial board member in many international journals.
More than one time the other journals transfer a papers to my journal because they do not match their field, and the corresponding authors of the papers withdraw the paper (it is optional) from my journal.
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