Neveu Rémi, Neveu André
affiliated to Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique (GATE LSE), Ecully, France.
CNRS, Université de Montpellier, Laboratoire Charles Coulomb, Montpellier, France.
PLoS One. 2025 Apr 29;20(4):e0322012. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0322012. eCollection 2025.
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.
科学期刊的编辑在出版过程中做出核心决策。诸如编辑的专业圈子和作者的出版记录等稿件内容之外的信息可能会影响这些决策。这构成了声誉，其在出版过程中的作用仍未得到充分研究。通过分析33种《自然》系列物理和生命科学期刊三十年的出版物，我们发现声誉与编辑层面的出版物相关联。非财务利益冲突政策的制定以及期刊的影响因子与编辑以前的共同作者和在《自然》系列期刊上有出版记录的作者的出版物数量变化有关。我们建议在作者和期刊层面进行变革，以减轻声誉在出版过程中的作用。
