We publish “mini-reviews” of published articles. Our faculty of eminent researchers and clinicians write these evaluations. One of the conditions we insist on from our faculty is that they may not evaluate work on which they are an author. We received a review of a paper, the authorship of which was listed as:
Name A, Name B, Name C; study group X
As the reviewer was a member of “study group X”, we rejected the submission. The reviewer wrote back claiming that: