Re: rules for submitting to a journal

Dear Donald and others,

It's entirely up to you to decide what you want to do
with this paper, but I would recommend sending it elsewhere.
Their policy is unfair, and they have no business for
asking this information! And the fact that they call it
unethical upsets me because that implies that their
opinion is established fact among professionals! I will
agree that it's unprofessional and unethical in many cases
to deliberately break rules, yet I think that labeling
some behavior "unethical" is implying that the
behavior is seriously wrong, not just some minor goof
or behavior that might bother some people but not most.
I think they use the term "unethical" to intimidate others
into abiding by their policy. It's one thing to be
blamed, or even punished for, a mistake anyone can make
or for a mistake no one sees as serious. But few professionals
want to found guilty of "unethical" behavior!
I seriously believe that only a handful of professionals
believe it is unethical not to tell journals you're submitting
to all previous information on earlier submissions that
were rejects. Everyone who has posted to this subject
so far do agree that failing to provide that information
is not unethical (independent of the rules of the
journal, that is). At least that's the case in mathematics
since I have never seen any mathematics journal make
that request.

Jonathan Groves
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