Parallel Paper Submission

[Grace Wahba]

There is a downside to the idea below: If everyone submitted their
paper to five journals in the hopes of maximizing its
acceptance by at least one, this will mean multiplying the amount of 
refereeing work to be done by up to a factor of 5. Furthermore
if an author gets an early acceptance from their 
second favorite journal and decides to wait to see if 
their first favorite journal will take it, then the 
second favorite journal has their publication schedule 
messed up. Editors and reviewers do not have unlimited free
resources to deal with this ... S & S - suggest you bounce this 
idea off a few editors, as well as  people who are maxxed out 
on refereeing, and see what kind of flack bounces back. 
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