Retraction Watch has started a list of mass resignations from journal editorial boards.
This is a welcomed resource but, more importantly, it highlights a very serious problem in academic publishing and why journal editors feel the need to resign and (often) set up their own journal.
At the time of writing, the list contains 20 journals, going back to 2015.
The full list is available here, but here are some that were reported in the media
- Medical journal editor sacked and editorial committee resigns, reported in The Sydney Morning Herald
- Lingua: Entire editorial team of respected linguistics journal resign en mass in turf war over publishing, reported in the Independent
- Math Journal Editors Quit for Open Access, reported in Inside Higher Ed
- Resignations at ‘Third World Quarterly’, reported in Inside Higher Ed
- Open-access journal editors resign after alleged pressure to publish mediocre papers, reported in Science
- Open-access row prompts editorial board of Elsevier journal to resign, reported in Nature
- Mass Resignations at Scientific Journal Over Ethically Fraught China Genetics Papers, reported in The Intercept
- Another Wiley journal board resigns after month-long strike, reported in Times Higher Education
- Imaging journal editors resign over ‘extreme’ open-access fees, reported in Spectrum
- Elsevier journal board follows through on mass resignation threat, reported in Times Higher Education
