Dual Submissions

Discussion of the Problem

A newly minted Ph.D. has taken up a position at a government laboratory. His early work has been extremely successful, and on the suggestion of his group leader he put together a manuscript describing their joint work, and submit it for publication in a high impact journal. The young scientist was the submitting author. Some weeks later his supervisor came to him and told him to submit the same manuscript to a specialized journal where the time to publication might be a lot shorter, and the potential refereeing gauntlet would likely be less of a hassle. The supervisor suggested that they could withdraw their manuscript from the extra journal if the other accepted it sooner.

Questions

What should the young scientist do? What should the editors do?
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