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I've published in some well-respected, but not highest-tier, journals (think impact factor ~ 5-7), where this was absolutely the case. You could very often iden

I've published in some well-respected, but not highest-tier, journals (think impact factor ~ 5-7), where this was absolutely the case. You could very often identify the reviewer by who the corresponding author of the twenty papers they asked you to cite was. Perhaps it's field dependent, my field (chemistry) was not always as, shall we say, ethical as some of the other fields.

PaulHoule 3y ago
… I thought people in physics were pretty sportsmanlike but my understanding was that biologists would stab you in the back for the slightest advantage. I would complain about how hard it was to make it in physics but in biology it seemed almost impossible to get established since young researchers just couldn’t get grants period.