In late 2021, a journal was receiving far more emails than usual asking to withdraw manuscripts that were already being peer reviewed. This raised suspicion by the managing editor prompting an investigation. MedTwitter
Ellie Kincaid noticed something strange. The journal was receiving far more emails than usual asking to withdraw manuscripts that were already being peer reviewed. And some of the emails were strikingly similar, even using the same unusual language. We feel that we have not yet studied our work completely and some new great results are discovered. After carefully thinking, we are going to rearrange this manuscript and try to give more precise model.
Looking at the submission, revision, acceptance, and publication dates of those articles and comparing them to the submission, decision, and withdrawal dates at their own journal, Ketcham and her colleagues found that 17 of the papers had been under consideration at both publications simultaneously. All of those duplicate submissions came from authors based in China.
It appears as though there are authors who feel justified in submitting a single manuscript to two or more journals simultaneously in order to publish more quickly and/or make the least possible number of revisions to the original version of the manuscript. Since it is hard for editors to detect this type of behavior, it may be seen as low risk/high reward.
When Ketcham and her colleagues quantified the withdrawal emails with repeating language, they found about half of the emails shared the same sentences with each other.
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