It is a crime against humanity because you are requiring unpaid referees of two journals to duplicate the work of reviewing your paper.

Dear Sarmad,

If you submit your manuscript for publication in one periodical, you cannot submit the same to another periodical. This is the general rule and most of the periodicals state this clearly in the instructions to the contributors.

So you will have to select the journal judiciously in order to have a quality publication as well as in minimum possible time.

For example just see the link for Nordic journal of Botany:

http://www.nordicjbotany.org/authors/author-guidelines

It clearly says:

Submitting a paper Authors submitting a manuscript do so on the understanding that the work has not been published before, is not being considered for publication elsewhere.........................

It is one sort of crime.

Hi,

It is not recommended to submit a manuscript to more than one journal at the same time.

"Articles submitted for publication must be original and must not have been submitted to any other publication. "

This article tell us why we should not do a multiple submission.

Article Why You Should not Submit Your Work to More than One Journal at a Time

Please also refer to the Elsevier Publishing Ethics Resource:

https://www.elsevier.com/editors/perk/multiple-duplicate-concurrent-publication-simultaneous-submission

It is a crime against humanity because you are requiring unpaid referees of two journals to duplicate the work of reviewing your paper.

It is unethical.

Thank you for your enriching answers, I know it is not allowed and ethical, but then I read an answer of a question on RG giving this as a suggestion, so I wanted to be sure of the possibility.

Best Regards

Sarmad

It is very critical issue in publication

Thank you Dr.Sarmad for your question

It is unethical and criminal

Submitting 2 is standard; anything beyond will not be accepted by any journal.

Hi, Sarmad

Fristly, thank you for asking an important Question.

Really this is unethical issue but you can keep submit it to one journal a while drag manuscripts from others journals.

Regards

Almaamari

No, you cannot submit the same paper to more than one journal at the same time. This is known as simultaneous or concurrent submission and is considered as an unethical practice.

Dear sir;

I think it will be waist to reviewers work and time. Good question. hope to hear more of your critical questions.

Regards

not ethical behaviour...

If you submit the same paper to two different journals, soon or later the editors, reviewers and editor-in-chief will know it and then, probably your name will be banned from many journals: no more papers will be considered for publication.

Thank you for your enriching answers, I know it is not allowed and ethical, but then I read an answer of a question on RG giving this as a suggestion, so I wanted to be sure of the possibility.

Best Regards

Sarmad

In many cases this is due to lack of time especially for professors who wish to graduate early

It is unethical, and unprofessional. Do not do this.

1) You submit to two journals. It takes editor's time, and reviewer time. At one journal you have wasted both. This will make editors and reviewers angry. Editors talk to one another, so you might find it more difficult to publish anything in the future.

2) There is the risk of double publication.

3) Very risky. If you submit to two journals there is the possibility that both journals will send a copy to the same reviewer. I would guess that most reviewers would tell both editors.

So what would happen if you sent the manuscript to two journals, and both journals happened to send a copy to your department head for review?

Colleagues are right. I will share one of my experiences which is relevant to the question. Once, I received an invitation to peer review a manuscript from a journal which I accepted. During the review process I discovered that the manuscript under review had already been published in another journal. I stopped the review process and informed the editor in charge that the manuscript had already been published. A really sad situation.

Regards

Interesting discussion.

Best regards

Dear: Dr. Sarmad

Preferably, submit your manuscript for one journal only, most of journals refused submit manuscript in other journal.

best regards

There is a benefit to submitting to one publisher at a time. If the publisher rejects the paper, you would have received valuable feedback from the referees to improve the quality of the paper before submitting to the next publisher for consideration.

Hi, it is better to submit to one Journal and patiently wait for the editor's response. If you must submit to another Journal Journal if you think the editor is delaying too much write a reminder to wake up the editor his role and when you noticed that he is not ready to do his job , write official message for withdrawal of your manuscript and wait for his response. It will be better to write to them for withdrawal before any further step will be taking. Give them enough time and warn them if they fail to respond to your mail that you will be sending it to another Journal and they should stop processing the paper to avoid multiple publications which is not good. Your question is an interesting one that will enlighten the researchers and the consumers of research.

This is not a recommended practice. If you do so, 1. Articles submitted to standard journals are deposited in their repositories. 2. Chances of rejection is more due to plagiarized content.

Best recommended practice are 1. Confirming the time duration starting from submitting till publishing with the publisher. 2. Many journals are providing the details of publishing process and time duration for each and every process.

I understand that you may need the article published sooner. However, doing this is unethical and would influence your credence, integrity, and carrier in the future. I strongly suggest preparing the merit and the quality of your manuscript, and most importantly, the rationale and methodology, which would affect your results and discussion and conclusion as well.

You may read the history of the first submission to acceptance dates of some articles published in a journal in addition to the period of a review written in the journal's guideline and policy. Then, you can expect the time.

Furthermore, see the acceptance rate in a journal you wish your article can be published.

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Always stick to journals that are rigorous in their peer review processes and of high impact, although it would take much time and big efforts to reach a final decision, either rejected or accepted. I surmise you will learn a lot from the reviewers' comments and questions.