Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet, tweets about the mass resignation of the editors of Journal of Economic Surveys, in reaction to the policies that the publisher (Wiley) is imposing on the journal.
https://twitter.com/richardhorton1/status/1755710557225635861
A consequence of the open access / author-pays model is that commercial publishers are increasingly using the number of papers published as their central metric, thereby prioritising quantity over quality.
There have been several such resignations over recent years. What are the implications for research communication and global health?
HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of HIFA (Healthcare Information For All), a global health community that brings all stakeholders together around the shared goal of universal access to reliable healthcare information. HIFA has 20,000 members in 180 countries, interacting in four languages and representing all parts of the global evidence ecosystem. HIFA is administered by Global Healthcare Information Network, a UK-based nonprofit in official relations with the World Health Organization. Email: neil@hifa.org
