Matt Hodgkinson<p>Academic Stewart Manley proposes a system that "allows a researcher to submit to multiple journals at the same time—increasing the chances of getting speedier initial journal interest and allowing researchers to choose between interested journals—but then avoids overlapping review by requiring the researcher to give the right to proceed to peer review (and eventual publication) to only one journal."</p><p>I think it could work if there was a cap on the number of simultaneous submissions, editors have a fixed timescale of a certain number of weeks in which to bid for the paper to be submitted to them, and when an author selects a journal for peer review any comments from the other editors would be seen by that journal, to avoid them ignoring important critiques.</p><p><a href="https://academic.oup.com/rev/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/reseval/rvaf027/8185625" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">academic.oup.com/rev/article-a</span><span class="invisible">bstract/doi/10.1093/reseval/rvaf027/8185625</span></a> (£)</p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/PeerReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeerReview</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/PublicationEthics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicationEthics</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/SimultaneousSubmission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SimultaneousSubmission</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/JournalEditing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JournalEditing</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ScienceMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceMastodon</span></a></p>