Editorial Board Member

Editorial Board Member

The editorial board requires a fair, honest, and unbiased assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the manuscript. Examples of unethical practice maybe if

  The Editor-In-Chief may directly ask an author to cite his papers in the manuscript.

Editorial board member insists the author to cite the previously published papers in that journal. The type of demand for citations to previous journal content as a condition for publication.

Citation cartels (also called citation stacking) also happen. That is collusion across journals to inflate each other’s citations. However, this can happen to a journal editor unknowingly - for instance, an author could also be an associate editor of Journal A, and include in their paper submitted to Journal B several gratuitous references to Journal A.