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Guest Post: An Editor’s Perspective on “My Very Last Issue.”

BMJ’s Medical Humanities Editor-in-Chief Brandy Schillace reflects on changes in publishing that are making important work harder to do.

  • By Brandy Schillace
  • Jan 15, 2025
  • 11 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Revisiting: The Editor — A Vital Role We Barely Talk About Anymore

Revisiting Kent Anderson’s 2014 post on the importance of editors–how much of what we see as a failure of “peer review” is really a failure of editorial oversight?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Sep 17, 2015
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

The Editor — A Vital Role We Barely Talk About Anymore

An alien landing in the scholarly and scientific publishing world today, reading all the opinions about how to make things more efficient and effective, might be forgiven for thinking there are only authors, readers, librarians, and reviewers. After all, those […]

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Sep 23, 2014
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Digital Disorder — Losing the Signal of Priority and Selection

We used to have editorial selection and ordering as a natural result of editorial control. With algorithms and news feeds dominating, where are the signals of priority and linked information? Did we really need the packaging?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Mar 1, 2012
  • 25 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

“Chaos, Solitons & Fractals” Resumes Publication

Controversial journal releases next issue, signals further editorial changes

  • By Phil Davis
  • Mar 3, 2009
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Chaos Continues in Math Journal

Publisher asks for submission stop while searching for new editor-in-chief.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Feb 6, 2009
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

The Soft Underbelly of Science

What can be learned about science and publishing from the El Naschie controversy?

  • By Phil Davis
  • Dec 1, 2008
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

Self-Publishing Editor to Retire

Controversial self-publishing editor, El Naschie, to step down in 2009. Professional affiliations cast in doubt.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Nov 28, 2008
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

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