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Retraction Watch
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More than 8,000 papers published by PLOS journals violate the publisher’s policy on author-editor relationships, as well as around 2,500 papers published by MDPI titles, the researchers found.

retractionwatch.comThousands of research studies violate journal policies on collaborations between editors and authorsA tool developed to mine metadata and find past collaborations between handling editors and authors has turned up thousands of cases that breach journal policies on such relationships. J. Di Scala …

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John McBride
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I had an editor reassigned mid-submission at PLOS, because the editor was coauthor on a large collaboration. I had never met the editor. Thought it was a bit silly. Perhaps not. Hopefully we'll move towards fully open science, where we can actually trace these things properly.