前几天审稿，发现文中一图与同一作者们已发表的文中的相同。主编决定REJECT。

昨天，主编转来THE SENIOR AUTHOR OF THE MANUSCRIPT的一EMAIL。有关内容如下：

I would like to thank reviewer for his/her careful reading and for spotting the embarrassing error with figure X.

I personally have to fully accept the blame for not spotting this mistake even though I can reassure that I have personally read and corrected this paper several times.