Recently, Scientometrics has published a paper titled ‘‘Is there bias in editorial
choice? Yes’’ (Moustafa 2015) in which some comments are given on our published paper
in Nature titled ‘‘Is there fame bias in editorial choice?’’ (Mahian et al. 2015). Unfortunately,
the author of above mentioned paper and many other readers might misunderstand
the main aim of our correspondence. Here, we try to give some explanations to clarify the
main goal of analysis presented in the paper.
