[GOAL] Re: Question about portability of peer review

[Stevan Harnad]

The policy of Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS, published by Cambridge
University Press), of which I was editor in chief for a quarter century was
that authors was that authors were strongly encouraged that if their
submitted paper had been submitted to and rejected by a journal, the
referee reports (and any rebuttal letter indicating revisions) should
accompany the submitted paper. In such cases I could contact the editors of
the rejecting journal to confirm that we had received all the reports and
that the reports were accurate.

There's nothing wrong with that practice, but there might be something
questionable about OA start-up journals explicitly courting of rejected
papers by: Authors usually have a good idea of the journal peer-reviews
standards hierarchy in their specialty, and if they are rejected by the top
journal, they revise and try the next highest. No need to advertise for the
rejects -- and especially not to associate OA with lower standards....

Stevan Harnad


On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Beall, Jeffrey <Jeffrey.Beall at ucdenver.edu
> wrote:

> An open-access publisher has this policy <http://www.medsci.org/ms/author>regarding peer review portability:
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> The Editors of the International Journal of Medical Sciences recognize
> that many manuscripts rejected by top-tier journals are still outstanding.
> Our journal is willing to review and re-evaluate manuscripts rejected from
> journals such as the Nature journals, Cell Press journals, NEJM, Lancet
> journals, Annals of Internal Medicine, and other high impact journals. We
> encourage authors to provide a copy of previous reviewer's and editor's
> comments. These reviews and rebuttals need to be dated and within 6 months
> of the last submission date. It is our belief that these prior reviews may
> assist us in expediting your manuscript for re-evaluation, thus
> facilitating more rapid publication; in some cases, the manuscript may be
> accepted immediately. Please include the prior reviews and your responses
> in the covering letter when making your submission.
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> My question is this: Is peer-review portability considered acceptable when
> the author is the one that transfers the actual peer review data from the
> rejecting publisher to the new one (as described in the policy above)?
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> Thank you,
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> Jeffrey Beall, MA, MSLS, Associate Professor
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