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I sent a paper to a good journal with other coauthors. Some days ago, one of my coauthors was sent an invitation to review this paper. Is this logical? I mean, has anybody of you ever received an invitation to review your own paper?



Some months ago, the same occurred with another paper in another good journal. I declined the invitation explaining that I was an author and I suggested other reviewers.



But, as I got a similar invitation now, I ask whether this is a usual practice...










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    Seems very weird. Also, seems foolish for anyone to try. It is hard enough to properly edit your own work.

    – Buffy
    yesterday






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    This sounds like a major failing on the part of the journal.

    – Tobias Kildetoft
    yesterday






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    @TobiasKildetoft Ok, thank you for your comment. I will write to the journal.

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    I suppose this could happen if the journal were using triple-blind review, where the editor does not see the names of the authors.

    – Nate Eldredge
    yesterday






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    I'm going to speculate on a possible cause. Maybe they are using some automated system that does a poor job of disambiguating similar names.

    – Buffy
    yesterday
















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I sent a paper to a good journal with other coauthors. Some days ago, one of my coauthors was sent an invitation to review this paper. Is this logical? I mean, has anybody of you ever received an invitation to review your own paper?



Some months ago, the same occurred with another paper in another good journal. I declined the invitation explaining that I was an author and I suggested other reviewers.



But, as I got a similar invitation now, I ask whether this is a usual practice...










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  • 12





    Seems very weird. Also, seems foolish for anyone to try. It is hard enough to properly edit your own work.

    – Buffy
    yesterday






  • 50





    This sounds like a major failing on the part of the journal.

    – Tobias Kildetoft
    yesterday






  • 1





    @TobiasKildetoft Ok, thank you for your comment. I will write to the journal.

    – user105811
    yesterday






  • 11





    I suppose this could happen if the journal were using triple-blind review, where the editor does not see the names of the authors.

    – Nate Eldredge
    yesterday






  • 3





    I'm going to speculate on a possible cause. Maybe they are using some automated system that does a poor job of disambiguating similar names.

    – Buffy
    yesterday














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I sent a paper to a good journal with other coauthors. Some days ago, one of my coauthors was sent an invitation to review this paper. Is this logical? I mean, has anybody of you ever received an invitation to review your own paper?



Some months ago, the same occurred with another paper in another good journal. I declined the invitation explaining that I was an author and I suggested other reviewers.



But, as I got a similar invitation now, I ask whether this is a usual practice...










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I sent a paper to a good journal with other coauthors. Some days ago, one of my coauthors was sent an invitation to review this paper. Is this logical? I mean, has anybody of you ever received an invitation to review your own paper?



Some months ago, the same occurred with another paper in another good journal. I declined the invitation explaining that I was an author and I suggested other reviewers.



But, as I got a similar invitation now, I ask whether this is a usual practice...







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  • 12





    Seems very weird. Also, seems foolish for anyone to try. It is hard enough to properly edit your own work.

    – Buffy
    yesterday






  • 50





    This sounds like a major failing on the part of the journal.

    – Tobias Kildetoft
    yesterday






  • 1





    @TobiasKildetoft Ok, thank you for your comment. I will write to the journal.

    – user105811
    yesterday






  • 11





    I suppose this could happen if the journal were using triple-blind review, where the editor does not see the names of the authors.

    – Nate Eldredge
    yesterday






  • 3





    I'm going to speculate on a possible cause. Maybe they are using some automated system that does a poor job of disambiguating similar names.

    – Buffy
    yesterday














  • 12





    Seems very weird. Also, seems foolish for anyone to try. It is hard enough to properly edit your own work.

    – Buffy
    yesterday






  • 50





    This sounds like a major failing on the part of the journal.

    – Tobias Kildetoft
    yesterday






  • 1





    @TobiasKildetoft Ok, thank you for your comment. I will write to the journal.

    – user105811
    yesterday






  • 11





    I suppose this could happen if the journal were using triple-blind review, where the editor does not see the names of the authors.

    – Nate Eldredge
    yesterday






  • 3





    I'm going to speculate on a possible cause. Maybe they are using some automated system that does a poor job of disambiguating similar names.

    – Buffy
    yesterday








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Seems very weird. Also, seems foolish for anyone to try. It is hard enough to properly edit your own work.

– Buffy
yesterday





Seems very weird. Also, seems foolish for anyone to try. It is hard enough to properly edit your own work.

– Buffy
yesterday




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50





This sounds like a major failing on the part of the journal.

– Tobias Kildetoft
yesterday





This sounds like a major failing on the part of the journal.

– Tobias Kildetoft
yesterday




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@TobiasKildetoft Ok, thank you for your comment. I will write to the journal.

– user105811
yesterday





@TobiasKildetoft Ok, thank you for your comment. I will write to the journal.

– user105811
yesterday




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I suppose this could happen if the journal were using triple-blind review, where the editor does not see the names of the authors.

– Nate Eldredge
yesterday





I suppose this could happen if the journal were using triple-blind review, where the editor does not see the names of the authors.

– Nate Eldredge
yesterday




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I'm going to speculate on a possible cause. Maybe they are using some automated system that does a poor job of disambiguating similar names.

– Buffy
yesterday





I'm going to speculate on a possible cause. Maybe they are using some automated system that does a poor job of disambiguating similar names.

– Buffy
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It's absolutely not usual practice and a clear case of the editor in charge being asleep at the wheel. This should not be happening: An editor's job is to find impartial reviewers and asking an author (or even someone close to the author) is definitely failing at this job.



Just the same, it is unethical for you to accept such invitations. Politely point out that you are an author of the paper and that, therefore, it would clearly be a conflict of interest for you to review the paper.






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    +1 I heard of this happening once, and it contributed to the editor in question being dismissed.

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  • In fact, I remember for some conferences (tho this was a couple of years ago) they asked me to enter all the institutional domains with which I have been associated with for the past 3 (or 5?) years specifically to avoid any conflict of interest by not assigning reviewers with e-mail addresses from those domains.

    – penelope
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    I do not see why it would be unethical for one to review one's own paper. Just write a short note explaining that you highly recommend it for publication as is and that if you did not feel that way you would not have submitted it for publication. The editor is not bound to follow your recommendation and can solicit more reviewers if appropriate.

    – emory
    9 hours ago






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    @emory : Are you joking?

    – MPW
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    @MPW no. if you write an honest and candid review which includes your relation to the paper in question, then what is unethical about it?

    – emory
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I've had this happen before to a coauthor (they were neither the first nor last author in a list of ~6), who contacted the editor replying that obviously they couldn't review the paper.



We had a little chuckle over it and moved on. Probably the editor was a bit embarrassed by their error, otherwise no harm done. I presume they used a list of previous reviewers the journal had contacted on the topic of our paper and missed that they were actually an author on the submitted work, or maybe they made a cognitive switch and started typing a name they just read was an author instead of the reviewer they intended to type.



I think the other answers are being a bit harsh towards the editor: they clearly made a mistake, but no reasonable author would ever review their own paper and this shouldn't cause any real problem. No, this is not a usual practice, but it happens at low frequency when people are busy. It's good you are producing enough work to have it happen to you or your colleagues twice.



As mentioned in comments, if your subfield practices triple-blind review where the editor is blinded to the identity of the authors then it is even more likely such errors could occur (and be less the fault of the editor) if imprecise software is used to exclude possible reviewers.






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  • @jakebeal It's not common in my field, but just from Academia.SE I've seen it mentioned as common for journals in philosophy, occasionally math. In medicine at least the BMJ mentions it but it's not clear to me which of their journals actually practices it.

    – Bryan Krause
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Obviously, one should never, ever receive an invitation to review one's own paper, since that would make a mockery of peer review. Indeed, reviewing one's own paper is a good reason for retraction.



On a paper with a vast number of middle authors (e.g., one of those 1000+ author papers), I can certainly imagine this happening by mistake. In a typical mathematics paper, however, the number of authors is never more than a handful, and so it would be difficult to make such a mistake without either a) a spectacular degree of inattention, or b) a terrible review system interface.



With a sufficiently lazy or inept editor or with sufficiently terrible software, however, any degree of mistake is possible.






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    It's possible there could be two "Prof. John Smiths" both working in the same field, but it would still be more than careless to invite the "wrong" one to review his own paper!

    – alephzero
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    @alephzero : I'm guessing one could check email and affiliation before sending review request. In other words, homonyms are not an excuse for this mistake.

    – Mefitico
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  • I've seen a case of two people with the same first and last name in the same field in the same group...

    – gerrit
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You should state a conflict of interest to the editor.

I am sure they will realize that it is unrealistic to expect you to be neutral while reviewing the paper.



Seriously: They did not pay enough attention. Such things happen sometimes, but you cannot take advantage from it without facing consequences sooner or later.






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    It's absolutely not usual practice and a clear case of the editor in charge being asleep at the wheel. This should not be happening: An editor's job is to find impartial reviewers and asking an author (or even someone close to the author) is definitely failing at this job.



    Just the same, it is unethical for you to accept such invitations. Politely point out that you are an author of the paper and that, therefore, it would clearly be a conflict of interest for you to review the paper.






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      +1 I heard of this happening once, and it contributed to the editor in question being dismissed.

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    • In fact, I remember for some conferences (tho this was a couple of years ago) they asked me to enter all the institutional domains with which I have been associated with for the past 3 (or 5?) years specifically to avoid any conflict of interest by not assigning reviewers with e-mail addresses from those domains.

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      I do not see why it would be unethical for one to review one's own paper. Just write a short note explaining that you highly recommend it for publication as is and that if you did not feel that way you would not have submitted it for publication. The editor is not bound to follow your recommendation and can solicit more reviewers if appropriate.

      – emory
      9 hours ago






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      @emory : Are you joking?

      – MPW
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      @MPW no. if you write an honest and candid review which includes your relation to the paper in question, then what is unethical about it?

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    It's absolutely not usual practice and a clear case of the editor in charge being asleep at the wheel. This should not be happening: An editor's job is to find impartial reviewers and asking an author (or even someone close to the author) is definitely failing at this job.



    Just the same, it is unethical for you to accept such invitations. Politely point out that you are an author of the paper and that, therefore, it would clearly be a conflict of interest for you to review the paper.






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      +1 I heard of this happening once, and it contributed to the editor in question being dismissed.

      – Allure
      yesterday











    • In fact, I remember for some conferences (tho this was a couple of years ago) they asked me to enter all the institutional domains with which I have been associated with for the past 3 (or 5?) years specifically to avoid any conflict of interest by not assigning reviewers with e-mail addresses from those domains.

      – penelope
      17 hours ago






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      I do not see why it would be unethical for one to review one's own paper. Just write a short note explaining that you highly recommend it for publication as is and that if you did not feel that way you would not have submitted it for publication. The editor is not bound to follow your recommendation and can solicit more reviewers if appropriate.

      – emory
      9 hours ago






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      @emory : Are you joking?

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      @MPW no. if you write an honest and candid review which includes your relation to the paper in question, then what is unethical about it?

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    It's absolutely not usual practice and a clear case of the editor in charge being asleep at the wheel. This should not be happening: An editor's job is to find impartial reviewers and asking an author (or even someone close to the author) is definitely failing at this job.



    Just the same, it is unethical for you to accept such invitations. Politely point out that you are an author of the paper and that, therefore, it would clearly be a conflict of interest for you to review the paper.






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    It's absolutely not usual practice and a clear case of the editor in charge being asleep at the wheel. This should not be happening: An editor's job is to find impartial reviewers and asking an author (or even someone close to the author) is definitely failing at this job.



    Just the same, it is unethical for you to accept such invitations. Politely point out that you are an author of the paper and that, therefore, it would clearly be a conflict of interest for you to review the paper.







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      +1 I heard of this happening once, and it contributed to the editor in question being dismissed.

      – Allure
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    • In fact, I remember for some conferences (tho this was a couple of years ago) they asked me to enter all the institutional domains with which I have been associated with for the past 3 (or 5?) years specifically to avoid any conflict of interest by not assigning reviewers with e-mail addresses from those domains.

      – penelope
      17 hours ago






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      I do not see why it would be unethical for one to review one's own paper. Just write a short note explaining that you highly recommend it for publication as is and that if you did not feel that way you would not have submitted it for publication. The editor is not bound to follow your recommendation and can solicit more reviewers if appropriate.

      – emory
      9 hours ago






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      @emory : Are you joking?

      – MPW
      7 hours ago






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      @MPW no. if you write an honest and candid review which includes your relation to the paper in question, then what is unethical about it?

      – emory
      7 hours ago














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      +1 I heard of this happening once, and it contributed to the editor in question being dismissed.

      – Allure
      yesterday











    • In fact, I remember for some conferences (tho this was a couple of years ago) they asked me to enter all the institutional domains with which I have been associated with for the past 3 (or 5?) years specifically to avoid any conflict of interest by not assigning reviewers with e-mail addresses from those domains.

      – penelope
      17 hours ago






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      I do not see why it would be unethical for one to review one's own paper. Just write a short note explaining that you highly recommend it for publication as is and that if you did not feel that way you would not have submitted it for publication. The editor is not bound to follow your recommendation and can solicit more reviewers if appropriate.

      – emory
      9 hours ago






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      @emory : Are you joking?

      – MPW
      7 hours ago






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      @MPW no. if you write an honest and candid review which includes your relation to the paper in question, then what is unethical about it?

      – emory
      7 hours ago








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    +1 I heard of this happening once, and it contributed to the editor in question being dismissed.

    – Allure
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    +1 I heard of this happening once, and it contributed to the editor in question being dismissed.

    – Allure
    yesterday













    In fact, I remember for some conferences (tho this was a couple of years ago) they asked me to enter all the institutional domains with which I have been associated with for the past 3 (or 5?) years specifically to avoid any conflict of interest by not assigning reviewers with e-mail addresses from those domains.

    – penelope
    17 hours ago





    In fact, I remember for some conferences (tho this was a couple of years ago) they asked me to enter all the institutional domains with which I have been associated with for the past 3 (or 5?) years specifically to avoid any conflict of interest by not assigning reviewers with e-mail addresses from those domains.

    – penelope
    17 hours ago




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    I do not see why it would be unethical for one to review one's own paper. Just write a short note explaining that you highly recommend it for publication as is and that if you did not feel that way you would not have submitted it for publication. The editor is not bound to follow your recommendation and can solicit more reviewers if appropriate.

    – emory
    9 hours ago





    I do not see why it would be unethical for one to review one's own paper. Just write a short note explaining that you highly recommend it for publication as is and that if you did not feel that way you would not have submitted it for publication. The editor is not bound to follow your recommendation and can solicit more reviewers if appropriate.

    – emory
    9 hours ago




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    @emory : Are you joking?

    – MPW
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    @emory : Are you joking?

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    @MPW no. if you write an honest and candid review which includes your relation to the paper in question, then what is unethical about it?

    – emory
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    @MPW no. if you write an honest and candid review which includes your relation to the paper in question, then what is unethical about it?

    – emory
    7 hours ago











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    I've had this happen before to a coauthor (they were neither the first nor last author in a list of ~6), who contacted the editor replying that obviously they couldn't review the paper.



    We had a little chuckle over it and moved on. Probably the editor was a bit embarrassed by their error, otherwise no harm done. I presume they used a list of previous reviewers the journal had contacted on the topic of our paper and missed that they were actually an author on the submitted work, or maybe they made a cognitive switch and started typing a name they just read was an author instead of the reviewer they intended to type.



    I think the other answers are being a bit harsh towards the editor: they clearly made a mistake, but no reasonable author would ever review their own paper and this shouldn't cause any real problem. No, this is not a usual practice, but it happens at low frequency when people are busy. It's good you are producing enough work to have it happen to you or your colleagues twice.



    As mentioned in comments, if your subfield practices triple-blind review where the editor is blinded to the identity of the authors then it is even more likely such errors could occur (and be less the fault of the editor) if imprecise software is used to exclude possible reviewers.






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    • Who uses triple-blind review?

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    • @jakebeal It's not common in my field, but just from Academia.SE I've seen it mentioned as common for journals in philosophy, occasionally math. In medicine at least the BMJ mentions it but it's not clear to me which of their journals actually practices it.

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    I've had this happen before to a coauthor (they were neither the first nor last author in a list of ~6), who contacted the editor replying that obviously they couldn't review the paper.



    We had a little chuckle over it and moved on. Probably the editor was a bit embarrassed by their error, otherwise no harm done. I presume they used a list of previous reviewers the journal had contacted on the topic of our paper and missed that they were actually an author on the submitted work, or maybe they made a cognitive switch and started typing a name they just read was an author instead of the reviewer they intended to type.



    I think the other answers are being a bit harsh towards the editor: they clearly made a mistake, but no reasonable author would ever review their own paper and this shouldn't cause any real problem. No, this is not a usual practice, but it happens at low frequency when people are busy. It's good you are producing enough work to have it happen to you or your colleagues twice.



    As mentioned in comments, if your subfield practices triple-blind review where the editor is blinded to the identity of the authors then it is even more likely such errors could occur (and be less the fault of the editor) if imprecise software is used to exclude possible reviewers.






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    • Who uses triple-blind review?

      – jakebeal
      14 hours ago











    • @jakebeal It's not common in my field, but just from Academia.SE I've seen it mentioned as common for journals in philosophy, occasionally math. In medicine at least the BMJ mentions it but it's not clear to me which of their journals actually practices it.

      – Bryan Krause
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    I've had this happen before to a coauthor (they were neither the first nor last author in a list of ~6), who contacted the editor replying that obviously they couldn't review the paper.



    We had a little chuckle over it and moved on. Probably the editor was a bit embarrassed by their error, otherwise no harm done. I presume they used a list of previous reviewers the journal had contacted on the topic of our paper and missed that they were actually an author on the submitted work, or maybe they made a cognitive switch and started typing a name they just read was an author instead of the reviewer they intended to type.



    I think the other answers are being a bit harsh towards the editor: they clearly made a mistake, but no reasonable author would ever review their own paper and this shouldn't cause any real problem. No, this is not a usual practice, but it happens at low frequency when people are busy. It's good you are producing enough work to have it happen to you or your colleagues twice.



    As mentioned in comments, if your subfield practices triple-blind review where the editor is blinded to the identity of the authors then it is even more likely such errors could occur (and be less the fault of the editor) if imprecise software is used to exclude possible reviewers.






    share|improve this answer















    I've had this happen before to a coauthor (they were neither the first nor last author in a list of ~6), who contacted the editor replying that obviously they couldn't review the paper.



    We had a little chuckle over it and moved on. Probably the editor was a bit embarrassed by their error, otherwise no harm done. I presume they used a list of previous reviewers the journal had contacted on the topic of our paper and missed that they were actually an author on the submitted work, or maybe they made a cognitive switch and started typing a name they just read was an author instead of the reviewer they intended to type.



    I think the other answers are being a bit harsh towards the editor: they clearly made a mistake, but no reasonable author would ever review their own paper and this shouldn't cause any real problem. No, this is not a usual practice, but it happens at low frequency when people are busy. It's good you are producing enough work to have it happen to you or your colleagues twice.



    As mentioned in comments, if your subfield practices triple-blind review where the editor is blinded to the identity of the authors then it is even more likely such errors could occur (and be less the fault of the editor) if imprecise software is used to exclude possible reviewers.







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    • @jakebeal It's not common in my field, but just from Academia.SE I've seen it mentioned as common for journals in philosophy, occasionally math. In medicine at least the BMJ mentions it but it's not clear to me which of their journals actually practices it.

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    • @jakebeal It's not common in my field, but just from Academia.SE I've seen it mentioned as common for journals in philosophy, occasionally math. In medicine at least the BMJ mentions it but it's not clear to me which of their journals actually practices it.

      – Bryan Krause
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    Who uses triple-blind review?

    – jakebeal
    14 hours ago





    Who uses triple-blind review?

    – jakebeal
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    @jakebeal It's not common in my field, but just from Academia.SE I've seen it mentioned as common for journals in philosophy, occasionally math. In medicine at least the BMJ mentions it but it's not clear to me which of their journals actually practices it.

    – Bryan Krause
    14 hours ago





    @jakebeal It's not common in my field, but just from Academia.SE I've seen it mentioned as common for journals in philosophy, occasionally math. In medicine at least the BMJ mentions it but it's not clear to me which of their journals actually practices it.

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    Obviously, one should never, ever receive an invitation to review one's own paper, since that would make a mockery of peer review. Indeed, reviewing one's own paper is a good reason for retraction.



    On a paper with a vast number of middle authors (e.g., one of those 1000+ author papers), I can certainly imagine this happening by mistake. In a typical mathematics paper, however, the number of authors is never more than a handful, and so it would be difficult to make such a mistake without either a) a spectacular degree of inattention, or b) a terrible review system interface.



    With a sufficiently lazy or inept editor or with sufficiently terrible software, however, any degree of mistake is possible.






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      It's possible there could be two "Prof. John Smiths" both working in the same field, but it would still be more than careless to invite the "wrong" one to review his own paper!

      – alephzero
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      @alephzero : I'm guessing one could check email and affiliation before sending review request. In other words, homonyms are not an excuse for this mistake.

      – Mefitico
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    • I've seen a case of two people with the same first and last name in the same field in the same group...

      – gerrit
      13 hours ago
















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    Obviously, one should never, ever receive an invitation to review one's own paper, since that would make a mockery of peer review. Indeed, reviewing one's own paper is a good reason for retraction.



    On a paper with a vast number of middle authors (e.g., one of those 1000+ author papers), I can certainly imagine this happening by mistake. In a typical mathematics paper, however, the number of authors is never more than a handful, and so it would be difficult to make such a mistake without either a) a spectacular degree of inattention, or b) a terrible review system interface.



    With a sufficiently lazy or inept editor or with sufficiently terrible software, however, any degree of mistake is possible.






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      It's possible there could be two "Prof. John Smiths" both working in the same field, but it would still be more than careless to invite the "wrong" one to review his own paper!

      – alephzero
      yesterday






    • 1





      @alephzero : I'm guessing one could check email and affiliation before sending review request. In other words, homonyms are not an excuse for this mistake.

      – Mefitico
      15 hours ago











    • I've seen a case of two people with the same first and last name in the same field in the same group...

      – gerrit
      13 hours ago














    17












    17








    17







    Obviously, one should never, ever receive an invitation to review one's own paper, since that would make a mockery of peer review. Indeed, reviewing one's own paper is a good reason for retraction.



    On a paper with a vast number of middle authors (e.g., one of those 1000+ author papers), I can certainly imagine this happening by mistake. In a typical mathematics paper, however, the number of authors is never more than a handful, and so it would be difficult to make such a mistake without either a) a spectacular degree of inattention, or b) a terrible review system interface.



    With a sufficiently lazy or inept editor or with sufficiently terrible software, however, any degree of mistake is possible.






    share|improve this answer















    Obviously, one should never, ever receive an invitation to review one's own paper, since that would make a mockery of peer review. Indeed, reviewing one's own paper is a good reason for retraction.



    On a paper with a vast number of middle authors (e.g., one of those 1000+ author papers), I can certainly imagine this happening by mistake. In a typical mathematics paper, however, the number of authors is never more than a handful, and so it would be difficult to make such a mistake without either a) a spectacular degree of inattention, or b) a terrible review system interface.



    With a sufficiently lazy or inept editor or with sufficiently terrible software, however, any degree of mistake is possible.







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    • 3





      It's possible there could be two "Prof. John Smiths" both working in the same field, but it would still be more than careless to invite the "wrong" one to review his own paper!

      – alephzero
      yesterday






    • 1





      @alephzero : I'm guessing one could check email and affiliation before sending review request. In other words, homonyms are not an excuse for this mistake.

      – Mefitico
      15 hours ago











    • I've seen a case of two people with the same first and last name in the same field in the same group...

      – gerrit
      13 hours ago














    • 3





      It's possible there could be two "Prof. John Smiths" both working in the same field, but it would still be more than careless to invite the "wrong" one to review his own paper!

      – alephzero
      yesterday






    • 1





      @alephzero : I'm guessing one could check email and affiliation before sending review request. In other words, homonyms are not an excuse for this mistake.

      – Mefitico
      15 hours ago











    • I've seen a case of two people with the same first and last name in the same field in the same group...

      – gerrit
      13 hours ago








    3




    3





    It's possible there could be two "Prof. John Smiths" both working in the same field, but it would still be more than careless to invite the "wrong" one to review his own paper!

    – alephzero
    yesterday





    It's possible there could be two "Prof. John Smiths" both working in the same field, but it would still be more than careless to invite the "wrong" one to review his own paper!

    – alephzero
    yesterday




    1




    1





    @alephzero : I'm guessing one could check email and affiliation before sending review request. In other words, homonyms are not an excuse for this mistake.

    – Mefitico
    15 hours ago





    @alephzero : I'm guessing one could check email and affiliation before sending review request. In other words, homonyms are not an excuse for this mistake.

    – Mefitico
    15 hours ago













    I've seen a case of two people with the same first and last name in the same field in the same group...

    – gerrit
    13 hours ago





    I've seen a case of two people with the same first and last name in the same field in the same group...

    – gerrit
    13 hours ago











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    You should state a conflict of interest to the editor.

    I am sure they will realize that it is unrealistic to expect you to be neutral while reviewing the paper.



    Seriously: They did not pay enough attention. Such things happen sometimes, but you cannot take advantage from it without facing consequences sooner or later.






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      You should state a conflict of interest to the editor.

      I am sure they will realize that it is unrealistic to expect you to be neutral while reviewing the paper.



      Seriously: They did not pay enough attention. Such things happen sometimes, but you cannot take advantage from it without facing consequences sooner or later.






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        1








        1







        You should state a conflict of interest to the editor.

        I am sure they will realize that it is unrealistic to expect you to be neutral while reviewing the paper.



        Seriously: They did not pay enough attention. Such things happen sometimes, but you cannot take advantage from it without facing consequences sooner or later.






        share|improve this answer













        You should state a conflict of interest to the editor.

        I am sure they will realize that it is unrealistic to expect you to be neutral while reviewing the paper.



        Seriously: They did not pay enough attention. Such things happen sometimes, but you cannot take advantage from it without facing consequences sooner or later.







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