Hey everybody!
Lately I have had problems to publish my research and i think this is something that happens not only with me, but also with other researchers. It takes months. Sometimes you have to submit to several journals before getting an approval. However, I think that everybody has already read a scientific paper and asked "How do they publish it?" either because of the quality of the results or because it lacks in novelty, etc. This make me think that the absence of a double blind review process is something really bad to Science, since some researchers can suggest "friends" to revise the papers and latter those friends indicate then back to revise their papers. Implicitly something like this: I approve your paper and you approve mine, in a two way road. But if we know that these kind of things can happen, why do the scientific journals do not use the double blind review process to avoid misconduct of some researchers? I believe that we have enough technology for that and also the Scientific community is big enough to deal with that, don't you think? This would be also a powerful tool to avoid any national or gender bias.
Adriana:
I really thought that there was a double-blind review process in publishing in Scientific. If not, there should be as it allows for fair reviewing. journals. Attached is what is available in RG that can be helpful to your question.
Best regards,
Debra
https://www.researchgate.net/search.Search.html?type=publication&query=double%20blind%20review%20process%20in%20scientific%20journals&tabViewId=5730fc8396b7e4802026cc51&previous=researcher
Dear Adriana,
Sometimes it becomes difficult for the Editors to find suitable reviewers. That is why ask for good reviewers from the authors. I feel that the authors should not exploit this option because if they suggest good reviewers the MS will definitely improve in its quality. Friends can help to get the papers published easily but the errors in the published papers will definitely not going the increase the dignity of the author. In RG I saw an interesting comment last week or so. A few authors create fake accounts and review their manuscripts themselves. However, I feel that the percentage of such kind of authors is insignificant.
Best wishes,
Subir.
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