I think asking authors to suggest reviewers for the article written and communicated by them is not correct.

I think asking authors to suggest reviewers for the article written and communicated by them is not correct.

I think this is not a good practice since there may be a bias if we recommend some friends or very close colleagues. Currently, many journals carry out this practice, I do not know if because they do not have enough specialized reviewers or because they simply do not feel like it. The problem is that in many of these journals, the reviewers do know the authors, although the authors do not know them. However, it may be a good practice to increase the pool of reviewers of the journal, although these reviewers are not the ones who check our manuscripts.

In the general case, it is assumed that the authors should not know who reviewed their article. This situation has many positive aspects. And, personally, I consider this approach as correct. However, I know the journals that allow authors to choose which reviewer they prefer. Especially often this situation occurs when

the 1st reviewer refuses to review the submitted article. In this case, the Editorial Board asks him to recommend other reviewers.

This practice should be banned from the editorial system. It looks like "tagged card game". When I send an article to a journal I always try to leave this condition absent. If there is insistence, I indicate random names collected in articles of the area, without even knowing the author. I find this form more fair and impersonal so that the assessments are ethical and without interference by friendships or the like.

Some journals ask the researchers to name a few individuals who are going to be assigned as the targeted reviewers. However, blind reviewing is a priceless asset that guarantees the quality of the review and is one the requirements which determines the prestige of the publishing institution.

I agree with expert’s perspectives ..

I agree with most opinions about this issue. Indeed, it depends on the journal quality. It is easy to pass this problem if the journal want. They may ask us provide reviewers to increas their reviewers base that allows them choosing the best for other articles. Some journals do not care because they are low quality especially open access jounals.

Why not , i agree with opinion to suggest reviewers of an article that we send.

In accordance with the intentions and credibility of the parties associated with the evaluation,

my greetings

in my opinion, double-blinded reviewing can prevent from some biases in admitting or rejecting; why applying relations instead of standard ways of judging. the one who conducts the job appropriately should be admitted regardless of who he/ she is.

One time I suggested a reviewer for my submitted manuscript and he did a great effort in evaluating it. In the end he rejected it, but I benefited from his comments.

It may be correct if authors od the paper suggest some of the reviewers from that field/topics which they do not know in person. Authors should not suggest friends or colleagues for that purpose...

Dear Catia Cillóniz

@I feel reviewer suggestion adds to bias, as a reviewer if specially known to you or even if somebody been following someone in good faith because of some common understanding may be research......still i feel it adds to"publication bias"

So reviews must be blinded by authors, place of study andany hint leading to authors

Regards

Personally, I see nothing bad in suggesting reviewers for own manuscript after all blind review process is in place and authors are also expected to be sincere.

I am not in support of such. I wonder why some journals does that.

In my opinion journal can use this option to improve pool of reviewers. good journals are not using these reviewers to review paper of author who suggested them.

Authors should consider it honestly for improvement of their research and manuscript.

In my point of view, suggesting a list of reviewers by the author are more helpful for the journal editor since the author is know exactly the specialist of his manuscript.

Pl check out following related discussions on RG :-

When a journal asks you to suggest a reviewer for your paper, what is your reaction? And next, what are the specific things that you would do?

https://www.researchgate.net/post/When_a_journal_asks_you_to_suggest_a_reviewer_for_your_paper_what_is_your_reaction_And_next_what_are_the_specific_things_that_you_would_do

Choosing Reviewers for Paper

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Choosing_Reviewers_for_Paper

I don't think it is correct to do that. Journals must be expedient enough to dig for experiential scholarly reviewers to maintain the rigor of scientific papers.

Demanding from author to suggest peer reviewer for own article is pardonable especially if the field is narrow to find a potential reviewer by the publisher. This saves time otherwise some articles will stay for up to 3 years before publishing with the excuses that they have not find a reviewer. Finding the right reviewer is usually a tedious task for publishers. Even if they have dedicated reviewers, a point will come when the workload will be too much for them.

However, this strategy can be adopted as well. When one suggest 4 reviewers, they send to 1 or 2 and the other 2 to different reviewers.

It seems to be as a lack of transparency..

This is not good, but now the process of research in general, is a bad process, in terms of reject the research for a simple reason, or Unpaid payment, add citation for the journal to your research and more.

It also depends on the intention of the editor. Sometimes if the editor wants to filter bias, he may need your list of reviewers and will never contact them.

Dear Catia

Most Journal request from authors to suggest reviewers for his manuscript, I think this situation not correct because the author will not suggest the high potential reviewers in order to get fast submission for his article, so the editor broad of the Journal must have a data base for good selected reviewers.

Good Luck

As per my opinion asking authors to suggest reviewers name for the article written and communicated by them is not correct.

some people say that suggesting a list of reviewers by the author are more helpful for editorial since the author knows the specialist of his article manuscript. In another away, some people say that suggesting a list of non- reviewers can avoid non-sincere evaluation may caused conflict of interest. anyway, In my opinion, I think this type of author request is not correct and doesnt Avoid an Impersonal judment.

Dear Anna Paula Azevedo De Carvalho

I guess suggestions for review and again recommendations for not to review makes it a bias case. Why not just leave to the editors as they are the third party and most probably biased.

So i guess suggesting a reviewers and then again suggesting a non-reviewer is kind of a small issue. People usually have defined their areas of interest and can always be approached as happening already.

Regards

Thank you, dear Sikandar Hayat Khan . My point was exactly and well explained by Francisco Sávio Gomes Pereira .

In my own opinion, asking authors to suggest reviewers for their manuscript is mainly the guideline provided by some journals. To maintain quality peer review the editors should assign credible reviewers for the manuscript.

I think is just a means of making authors taking part of the peer review process. Giving voice to the authors in the peer review process of their manuscript. It may not be compulsory to suggest if you actually want to be fair in the reviewing process of your manuscript.

In my opinion as editor of some journal to a certain extent facilitates the management of the article for the associate editor, it is in ethics and decision of the reviewers to be correct and fair when reviewing an article

It depends on editorial policy of journal concerned. I am of the opinion that the editors should maintain a panel of experts of the related discipline and assign reviewers out the panel randomly rather than asking authors to suggest reviewers for the paper submitted by them.

Dear Dr Catia Cillóniz , Good question.

I also sometimes feel uneasy while suggesting the reviewers while submitting the article. But, it gives Editor some idea to find or be connected with the appropriate person to request for the review of the article.

It is inappropriate asking authors to suggest reviewer's for their manuscripts. Authors may only suggest experts they know and in close contact. Consequently, the essence of blind peer review is defeated if editors make use of such suggestions.

It deeply depends on the editorial policy of journals

I think that sometimes is difficult to editors know all the specialist of all themes and could be helpful to they ask for some reviewers in particular matter for a precise selection

I think that only Editorial Board should select the reviewers for the submitted manuscript, because unfortunately authors suggest more or less loyal or even familiar specialists. Therefore Editorial Board should search and select suitable reviewers. However, it would not be superfluous to know the suggestions of authors - these are helpful, if there are problems with a search of reviewers.

But in general, I think that search and invitation of reviewers should not be difficult for editors. In any case, an one of duties of the Editorial Board is to be able to search and select reviewers relevant to the scope of the journal.

Selection of Reviewers for submitted paper should be EB's job.

I think it is not good. Personal opinion please!

Sometimes editors do not know all the experts in a specific field. Then to suggest one or two reviewers, may be helpful. It is still up to the editor to decide, and the reviewers integrity.

When we submit a paper, we often submit names of reviewers that we do not necessarily know or have close relationships to, but who are known experts in the field.

As editor, I take the same approach as Michael J. Somers. If I do select a reviewer suggested by the authors, I check if any authors have widely co-published with the suggested reviewers. If yes, I will think twice about inviting them.

I think the key word is “suggest”. On the occasions that I have been asked to suggest reviewers I was not under the impression that I was actually picking the reviewers for my manuscript. The editor has the option of picking one (or two, or three) of the suggestions or not using any of them. The author still does not know which, if any, of their suggestions were used by the editor.

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