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I have a general question about submitting an article--a scientific article, obviously--to journals for publication*: Can you submit your article to several journals, and then withdraw the submission from the journals once a particular journal forwards the paper for refereeing or agrees to publish it? Or must you wait until you're rejected before submitting it elsewhere?
Back story: We--okay, primarily me...my advisor hasn't been especially "hands on" with this project, and I'm the one TeXing it--are finishing an article. From all the reading I did of the literature on the topic, I've found one particular journal for which our work is a very good fit; however, it's not really a "high impact" journal (impact factor just under 2.0). There's another journal, which a much higher impact factor (and probably a corresponding rejection factor) that's seems to be a decent fit for our work, but it may not be a perfect fit for the journal.
I'd really like to get this paper published sooner rather than later--who doesn't?--but I also want to have the highest quality publication list I can have.
So, is it unethical to submit an article to multiple journals?
*My advisor just left for Europe which is why I'm asking y'all right now.
Back story: We--okay, primarily me...my advisor hasn't been especially "hands on" with this project, and I'm the one TeXing it--are finishing an article. From all the reading I did of the literature on the topic, I've found one particular journal for which our work is a very good fit; however, it's not really a "high impact" journal (impact factor just under 2.0). There's another journal, which a much higher impact factor (and probably a corresponding rejection factor) that's seems to be a decent fit for our work, but it may not be a perfect fit for the journal.
I'd really like to get this paper published sooner rather than later--who doesn't?--but I also want to have the highest quality publication list I can have.
So, is it unethical to submit an article to multiple journals?
*My advisor just left for Europe which is why I'm asking y'all right now.