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Odd Requirement for Journal Author: Name Other Domain Experts

posted by cmn32480 on Monday August 17 2015, @07:57PM   
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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Original Submission

• Networks of Trust Networks of Trust (Score: 3, Insightful) by naubol on Tuesday August 18 2015, @12:47AM

  by naubol (1918) on Tuesday August 18 2015, @12:47AM (#224174)

  They didn't ask for a list of professional friends. They asked for four domain experts. Since academia is about building a network of trust which benefits both journals and authors reciprocally, why would domain experts in your field resent you publicly claiming they're an expert?

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• Re:Networks of Trust (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday August 18 2015, @07:59AM

  by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Tuesday August 18 2015, @07:59AM (#224296) Homepage

  An internet loon once claimed I was a domain expert. I was offended to be associated in any way with him and is crankery.
  
  It does look like they are fishing for contacts, but to be honest there's nothing wrong with having to prove that you're actually aware of what's going on in the field at large.

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