I don't know how common this practice is, but I have received multiple submissions to referee and once even received the same paper three times simultaneously. Aside from being immoral and against publication guidelines - most journals require you to confirm that the paper has not been submitted elsewhere - I suspect that if you get found out you will have a lot of trouble publishing in the same journals again.
On the other hand, if a paper gets rejected you are then free to submit elsewhere - it just requires a bit of patience. Bill Silvert ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Park" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 11:56 PM Subject: Questionable Research Practices > A really heinous practice is to farm out your manuscript to a number of > different publications, dropping those that either rejected the MS or did > not > return a review too quickly.
