Abstract

In this study, the challenges and solutions related to the simultaneous submission of a manuscript to more than one journal were investigated. Always, the found challenges exist and occur consciously or unconsciously. Unfortunately, an applicable solution has not been offered in this regard so far. I have introduced a new way, for the first time, that provides all publishers with a controllable submission process. The provided solution is an application programming interface that is linked to a central database and could save critical information of all submitted manuscripts such as title, authors� information, abstract, keywords, date of first submission and history of referee�s comments. All publishers throughout the world can join this database, enable its advanced features for their journals and try to providing a controllable submission system against this important publishing challenge. © 2017, Springer Science+Business Media New York.