As if I needed more reasons to loathe Elsevier.
Lately I've received peer review requests from Elsevier journals. If I decline their request via the email link, it takes me to a website that has an angry red box that says "Action not allowed."
Ok, so I will email the editor to say I can't do it. That apparently goes to some IT support system, not the editor.
And today I got an email implying I was being unprofessional because I did not respond to their reviewer request.
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Robert W. Gehl
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