Elsevier says it is reassessing its procedures for special issues after one of its journals issued expressions of concern for six such publications, involving as many as 400 articles, over worries that the peer review process was compromised.
The journal, Microprocessors & Microsystems, published the special issues using guest editors.
The EoCs vary slightly, but the journal has issued the following blanket statement for these six issues:
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