{"id":1190,"date":"2007-09-19T19:49:33","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T17:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/09\/19\/denial-of-service-attack-to-science\/"},"modified":"2007-09-19T20:31:46","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T18:31:46","slug":"a-denial-of-service-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/09\/a-denial-of-service-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"A denial of service attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ever proliferating number of review requests comes like a denial of service attack – just like hacking attacks to high-profile web servers<\/a>.
\nBest of all – however – it is a self limiting process. There is no more editor on the phone but just a few time triggered database actions. During my last holidays, this could be nicely seen:<\/p>\n

25.08.2007 07:37 Invitation to Review XXX<\/p>\n

\nDear Dr. Wjist:
\nThe Editors of XXX would appreciate your comments on the following manuscript, which has been submitted to the journal:
\nManuscript ID XXX-XXX entitled “Replication of an association between…\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

31.08.2007 08:28 Reminder! Invitation to Review XXX<\/p>\n

\nDear Dr. Wjist:
\nAn email was sent to you recently inviting you to review the following manuscript XXX-XXX for XXX (see detailed description below).
\nSince we have not yet heard from you, we would be most grateful if you would kindly indicate your willingness… <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

31.08.2007 14:14 Manuscript ID XXX-XXX. Follow-up: Invitation to Review<\/p>\n

\nDear Dr. Wjist:
\nRecently, I invited you to review a manuscript for XXX, Manuscript ID XXX-XXX.
\nI have since been fortunate enough to secure the required number of reviewers for this manuscript and will therefore not take up any more of your valuable time. I hope in the future you will be able to review other manuscripts submitted to the Journal.
\nYours sincerely,\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just to make that clear – I have never published a paper there; the journal has never offered any gratification for this work; we have even never met before in life, and they even don’t know to spell my name correctly, yea, yea.<\/p>\n\n

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