What to do when a request to referee turns up in your inbox for a paper directly related to the one you have had under review for 8 months and are still wating for the referees to comment on the revision...?
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If it looks dodgy, I’d send your MS that is with journal X to journal Y (the one that asked you to review). Y isn’t obliged to contact X, but if it looks questionable they probably should. Sometimes there are coincidences but in such cases, reviewers should turn down the request.
I imagine you’ve already got a good list of alternative reviewers to suggest who hopefully wouldn’t get to the new one before they review yours? (this is of course not a serious suggestion)
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