Dear All,
Not so long time before we have received a review from a referee, asking us to introduce 17 (!!!) citations...yes, (nearly) ALL of them had a common co-author...we have have reported it to the Editor of the journal...and some weeks later, we have received another review for a new article, with 12 references, from the same author...and in a journal of the same publishing company (Elsevier).
How can we act against this kind of highly unethical approach? (we are sending a notification for the Editor...but... "come'n", these kind of people should be excluded from the reviewing procedures !!!, but also from publishing in highly rated journals...)
Any suggestion or similar experience?
Should we make it public his name? (but we can afraid if somehow he will receive another article from us...)
Thank you in advance!
I have received request from one reviewer, he is in researchgate with high score to give reference of his paper.
It is very unfortunate. I tract back my paper from the journal. It is a big name in as publishing house.
So unethical these people are.
Check the following URL:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02639-9
Dear Mohammed,
Yes, I've read this info when it appeared...that's why I wonder even more, that after this official statement and after our mail to the Editor, how we have met again this guy as a reviewer at a journal of Elsevier....
He is not the guy in our case...but slowly, the things are advancing...:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00335-7?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20200213&utm_source=nature_etoc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20200213&sap-outbound-id=8AC7354341471CC0E8282A2622536CB2F0F752AE&mkt-key=005056A5C6311ED9A791E24FF7144BAC&fbclid=IwAR3SZA4bGoCID27CW2urae2giwlEfrdIqpf7KGkOHoez7SQEzzxGwa-TpbU
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