I have just been invited by a known journal to review a paper about clinical trials on cancer.
My background is theoretical physics. I work on applications to neuroscience. I have never published anything remotely related to cancer. Why in the world would I get this invitation to review? It does frankly speak very bad of the journal.
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@vbuendiar Yes, that's disturbing. I expect that sort of thing from the various junk journals, but if major journals are exercising so little care in choosing reviewers that seems like a red flag.
@internic it's not 'major' maybe, but definitely a journal that was respected few years ago and it is still respected in some fields. Scary, really.