Multiple simultaneous submissions to journals

[Peter M. Muriana]

In article <2ga6bq$hl9 at agate.berkeley.edu>, colemanr at garnet.berkeley.edu () writes:
>In article <93355.134537FORSDYKE at qucdn.queensu.ca>,
> <FORSDYKE at QUCDN.QueensU.CA> wrote:
>>In article <1993Dec20.204932.27287 at midway.uchicago.edu>, 
>> jm68 at quads.uchicago.edu
>>(James R. Mensch Jr.) says:
>>>
	....stuff deleted......
>>>I am assuming that others will choose as their "secondary..." journal your
>>>(or anyones) "primary" journal.  The ultimate solution to the problem
>>>would seem to lie in improving the efficiency of the review process.
>>
>Perhaps the review process could be more efficient, but I think the whole
>system could be vastly improved if people would take more care when 
>submitting their papers.  I am getting really tired of receiving manuscript
>to review that are obviously not the authors best work: poor writing, 
>sloppy organization, bad graphs.  In short, the authors just didn't really
>think about what they were doing -- they just submitted and hoped the
>reviewers would fix the paper.  This is the real problem in the system.
>I think that ideally a reviewer should only have to correct points of fact,
>and to argue logic and points of view and the reviewer shouldn't have to
>wade through a bunch of crap to do these jobs.  
>-- Ron Coleman

How about journals charging $75.00 simply for submission of articles. This 
fee would provide for payment of a stipend for reviewers ($25.00 each) 
**if they can return manuscripts in the required time.**  The fee may 
discourage sloppy submissions and provide a stipend for responsive 
reviewers who often get little or no recognition for their efforts.??!!
Just a thought. Regards, Peter
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