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Learning how to desk reject a manuscript is not really about deciding. Most editors know within ten minutes which papers should not go to review. The difficulty is everything that comes afterwards: the letter, the appeal, the email chain that runs for three weeks, and the uncomfortable feeling that the decision was a judgement you

Most small journals do not have a reviewer database. They have the editor’s address book, and it runs out at about the sixth name. Learning how to find peer reviewers systematically — rather than asking the same handful of colleagues until they stop replying — is the single biggest lever on turnaround time that a

AI-hallucinated citations have moved from a curiosity discussed at conferences to something sitting in your submission queue this week. A language model asked to support a claim will produce a citation that has the shape of a real one — correct journal, plausible authors, a volume and page range in the right register — without

Fabricated references are no longer a rare curiosity in scholarly submissions. They are a routine screening problem, and most small journals have no process for catching them. A reference that does not exist reads exactly like one that does: plausible authors, a real journal, a volume and issue that look right, page numbers in a