Parallel Paper Submission

[Sunny Bains]

This may be an entirely off-the-wall comment, but 
there is a possible solution that be able to be 
imported from (believe it or not) the vagaries of 
English property law.

It used to be that each potential buyer (the 
journals) of a house (the paper) would have their 
own separate survey (review) done for the 
mortgaging companies. More recently, someone came 
up with the idea (this is still experimental) of 
having the buyer have their house surveyed 
themselves (the surveying profession is 
independent), and then give this report to any 
potential buyers.

So, you could have a panel of reviewers who review 
for many journals in the same field. If the author 
  puts a list of all the journals he/she is 
interested in, in order, then the reviewer can 
make the appropriate comments...

(I have a very narrow experience of paper 
publishing, so apologies if this is a naive 
solution... I just thought it might be worth 
suggesting).

Best,

Sunny Bains
Imperial College of Science and Technology

Jay McClelland wrote:

> 
> I wholeheartedly agree with Tom.  Parallel submission would create
> a huge waste of reviewer time, and would lead to many bad feelings
> if a paper is accepted to two outlets.  Obviously the problem with
> the sequential approach is that review turnaround can be slow.  This
> is an issue that we all can and should work on.
> 
>  -- Jay McClelland
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