Letter to the editor: Against the Resilience of Rejected Manuscripts

TL;DR

This paper advocates for standardized guidelines and protocols in online journal systems to improve tracking and sharing of rejected manuscript reports, aiming to enhance the peer review process.

Contribution

It proposes developing guidelines and protocols for better management and sharing of rejected manuscript information across journals.

Findings

Proposed guidelines for manuscript tracking

Suggested protocols for referee report exchange

Emphasized importance of standardized peer review processes

Abstract

In this letter we propose the development of guidelines by the main editors associations as well as protocols within online journal management systems for keeping track of rejected manuscripts that are resubmitted as well as for the interchange of referees reports between journals.