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Hello,
A very informative post -thank you! ISRN Neuroscience invited me to join their wide editorial board and I did that partially because I wanted to see as an “insider” how the process works for this group of journals that is somewhere in the gray zone when it comes to reputation. Here are pros and cons that I have noticed (and I have reviewed 4 times for them): Cons: the editor in chief is not a reputable person (what we are used to publishing in e.g. Elsevier journals) and I am not sure whether this person has a real capacity to make final decisions in controversial cases. Pros and cons in one :): in one case when a manuscript was iffy (in which an editor in chief would normally make a call without sending it to referees) they asked me to read the paper paying attention to a questionable set of data to assess whether I had any reservations. Once I described the design was flawed, they provided their own similar pre-assessment and rejected the paper right away. It means that someone actually pre-screens those papers, but having a real editor in chief would make their life easier. Pro: 2 out of 4 manuscripts that myself and the second referee deemed as inadequate were rejected flat out. The decent papers were published after significant revisions.


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