I’ve been privately told of several such cases in high-energy physics. Some even allege that the main reason that David Gross got a share of the Nobel Prize for Asymptotic Freedom because he was a referee or maybe a journal editor for the Politzer’s paper and managed to hasten his group’s somewhat lagging research to get it published at the same time. No idea if the story has any true in it.
I’ve been privately told of several such cases in high-energy physics. Some even allege that the main reason that David Gross got a share of the Nobel Prize for Asymptotic Freedom because he was a referee or maybe a journal editor for the Politzer’s paper and managed to hasten his group’s somewhat lagging research to get it published at the same time. No idea if the story has any true in it.