[GOAL] Re: Question about portability of peer review

[Raphael Ritz]

On 2/25/14 5:25 PM, Beall, Jeffrey wrote:
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> 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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This reminds me of the "Neuroscience Peer Review Consortium"
http://nprc.incf.org/

"The Neuroscience Peer Review Consortium is an alliance of neuroscience
journals that have agreed to accept manuscript reviews from other
members of the Consortium. Its goals are to support efficient and
thorough peer review of original research in neuroscience, speed the
publication of research reports, and reduce the burden on peer reviewers."

There authors do not forward the reviews themselves
but rather request them to be forwarded
from the first journal to the next. But it is
at the authors discretion whether (s)he wants
them to be forwarded or not.

Raphael


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