From: "AdP" Subject: Your submission to Annalen der Physik (andp.202000007) - [EMID:c876e3418321ffc9] Date: January 7, 2020 at 08:51:08 PST To: "Jorge E. Hirsch" Reply-To: "AdP" Dear Prof. Hirsch, We have carefully examined your manuscript "How Alfven's theorem explains the Meissner effect" (andp.202000007) submitted to Annalen der Physik. Unfortunately, we have noticed that significant textual parts of your manuscript are similar or have even been verbatim copied from published literature. In particular Section II is essentially a complete copy from your own previous article J. Supercond. Novel Magn. 2019, DOI 10.1007/s10948-019-05284-5 (which is not even cited in the present manuscript) while Figs. 9, 10 have been taken or adapted from Ref. [24] without attribution. This is not acceptable. Consequently, your manuscript has been denied consideration by our journal. We hope for your understanding. Yours sincerely, Stefan Hildebrandt, Editor-in-Chief -- Dr. Stefan Hildebrandt, Editor-in-Chief Annalen der Physik Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA Rotherstrasse 21 10245 Berlin Germany T  +49(0)6201-606-531 F  +49(0)6201-606-510 E-mail: ann-phys@wiley-vch.de