European Science Editing 48: e95926, doi: 10.3897/ese.2022.e95926
Should editors with multiple retractions or a record of academic misconduct serve on journal editorial boards?
Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva‡‡ Unaffiliated, Miki-cho, Japan
Corresponding author: Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva ( jaimetex@yahoo.com ) Academic editor: Joan Marsh © Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Teixeira da Silva JA (2022) Should editors with multiple retractions or a record of academic misconduct serve on journal editorial boards? European Science Editing 48: e95926. https://doi.org/10.3897/ese.2022.e95926 |  |
Abstract
In the academic world, despite their corrective nature, there is still a negative stigma attached to retractions, even more so if they are based on ethical infractions. Editors-in-chief and editors are role models in academic and scholarly communities. Thus, if they have multiple retractions or a record of academic misconduct, this viewpoint argues that they should not serve on journals’ editorial boards. The exception is where such individuals have displayed a clear path of scholarly reform. Policy and guidance is needed by organizations such as the Committee on Publication Ethics.
Keywords
Academic image, corrective science, reform, responsibilities, role models, scholarly community