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Abstract
This article offers perspectives from academics with recent journal editing experience on a range of ethical issues and dilemmas that regularly pose challenges for those in editorial roles. Each contributing author has provided commentary and reflection on a select topic that was identified in the research literature concerning academic publishing and journal editing. Topics discussed include the ethical responsibilities of working with international and early career contributors to develop work for publication, balancing influence and responsibility to a journal's disciplinary field while maintaining the integrity of editorial and review processes, and the challenges of promoting scholarly research that pushes epistemological, methodological, and political boundaries in an increasingly competitive publishing climate. This article aims to stimulate discussion concerning the roles, responsibilities, and ethical challenges faced by journal editors, and the implications of these for ethical practices in academic publishing today.
Acknowledgments
Holly Randell-Moon extends her warmest thanks to Sue Saltmarsh and Wendy Sutherland-Smith for commissioning her to coordinate this paper. Their guidance, insight and support significantly shaped the paper's themes. She also thanks the paper's contributors who generously offered their observations and reflections in an exercise of multi-authored transdisciplinarity that constitutes a small, but important, challenge to the increasingly stratified publishing environment we find ourselves in.