Nature: the truth?

Nature journal has just published an editorial text [Nature 556, 5 (2018)] entitled “Nature: the truth” (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-04024-4?utm_source=twt_nnc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=naturenews&sf186201391=1).

There, we read a list of myths about Nature’s editorial processes and policies. Although we agree with most of them, we disagree with “Myth 4: The authorship of a paper — including country and institution — influences Nature’s decision on whether to referee or publish it. Untrue”. Based on several colleagues’ statements and our own experience, we think that “Myth 4” is not a myth. At this moment, we have a paper submitted to a journal from Nature group. We will wait for the end of this process to give more details about our experience on this “myth”.