I am more and more experiencing the case of Journals, who declare themselves oriented toward “practitioners”, which reject submissions on current general problems in scientific conduct or general current issues, even when proposed as reviews, saying that the practitioners would not be interested in them, or even they would not “understand” them. In my case, that involved information on the change proposed for 2018 of the International System of Units, which should be of interest of any experimentalist, and beyond; or an increasingly-spread attitude for ‘single thinking’, which omits, or often even refuses to accept, different or controversial ways of thinking, or of interpreting scientific issues in more than a single way, usually the one prompted by some official bodies or the more current way.
I think that this definition of ‘practitioners’, as scientists simply more oriented on solving practical problems, is not justified: it would trivialize their activities as mere execution of rules and methods established by the ‘true scientists’, and exclude for them any cultural interest and curiosity. Monocultural Journals themselves become examples of ‘single thinking’, an attitude that I consider extraneous to scientific thinking.
Thank you for raising this important issue. Journals editors have the authority to decide on submitted paper to be moved to the next step for review or being returned to author/rejected. Each editor and based on his/her background and perspective about the journal scope a vision on what they think is suitable or not.
for authors {and I have experienced this many times} I dont think the editor give appropriate consideration to the manuscript that took a lot of efforts and time under preparation.
The positive point here, that there are hundereds of specialized journals with high standards that can be alternative. So, easily, just submit the paper to another journal, and even you dont need to go in arugment with the editor who rejected the paper because it will be a waste of time.
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