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posted by cmn32480 on Monday August 17 2015, @07:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the looking-for-references-in-all-the-wrong-places dept.

An Anonymous Coward write:

A friend from academia recently invited me to write a paper for a journal that he is guest editing. I don't write many papers (not in academia), so I figured I better look through the Author Guidelines to see what formats they would accept, etc.

Here is the Inderscience author faq page.

This one stopped me in my tracks:

Why am I asked to identify four experts?

You must identify four experts in the subject of your article, details of which will be requested during online submission. The experts must not be members of the editorial board of any Inderscience journal, must not be from your* institution, and at least two of them must be from a different country from you*.

The purpose of this request is ensure your familiarity with the latest research literature in the field and to identify suitable experts who can be added to our Experts Database and who may be asked if they are willing to review articles for Inderscience journals; we are unlikely to ask them to referee your article.
(*"you" refers to all authors of the paper)

Has anyone else been asked to identify professional friends by a journal publisher?

Needless to say, I'm not writing anything for Inderscience until this request is removed. Or maybe I'll write the paper as a favor to my friend...and provide names of experts from my field who are deceased.


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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by shrewdsheep on Monday August 17 2015, @08:07PM

    by shrewdsheep (5215) on Monday August 17 2015, @08:07PM (#224072)

    This is standard procedure in many/most academic journals. Just sample some guides for authors from random journals. It makes it convenient for the editor to solicit reviews for an article as it can take considerable effort to find apt reviewers even in the specialized world of journals we live in. Acadmic integrity requires that not only is your article sound but you also follow proper review procedures by naming reviewers that will give a critical opinion. In practice, the author will be biased towards more friendly reviewers which IMO is not to be condemned as overcritical/unfair reviewers are a terrible waste of energy. The editor OTOH has to check recommended reviewers against co-pulications with the author and their papers to assure himself of their expertise.

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