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Björn Brembs (brembs@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 21:42:55 JST Björn Brembs

If your buddy becomes an editor at a Nature journal, your chances of publishing a Nature paper more than double:
"For each additional original article published in the two years before the editor’s appointment, these authors had 161% more chances to publish another original article in this journal after the editor’s appointment"
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0322012
#academicchatter #publishing #openscience
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  Reputation shortcoming in academic publishing
  
  Editors of scientific journals make central decisions in the publication process. Information peripheral to the content of a manuscript such as the editor’s professional circle and authors’ publishing record may influence these decisions. This constitutes reputation whose role in the publication process remains poorly investigated. Analyzing three decades of publications of 33 Nature journals in physical and life sciences, we show that reputation is tied with publications at the level of editors. The establishment of a non-financial conflict of interest policy and the journals’ impact factor were associated with changes in the number of publications of editors’ former co-authors and authors with a publishing record in Nature journals. We suggest changes at the author and journal levels to mitigate the role of reputation in the publication process.

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