CCL: ChemPhysChem: warning

 Sent to CCL by: "Demetra  Dimetrodon" [dpfiz * hotmail.com]
 Dear Dr. Ismail,
 What you say makes sense, but normally the decision about unsuitability takes at
 most a week or two. It is completely improbable for ALL reviewers (even say,
 three) contacted to all refuse. If so, I should have been informed that this
 most improbable scenario (all referees refusing to review) has in fact taken
 place. The fact that I wasn't contacted at any time during these two months, and
 was left to believe that my paper was being reviewed, means that my rights were
 trampled on. I'm willing to wager that this hasn't happened to anybody else.
 Moreover, the journal I subsequently sent my paper to seemed to have no issues
 with reviewers refusing to review. Could it be because this time, I explicitly
 requested for my former boss to not be a referee, due to conflict of interest?
 Dr. Ma, I beg to differ. The fact that the editor is not an active researcher
 makes the potential for her manipulation much greater than if she had a
 reputation to uphold in the scientific community.
 DD