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Written by Wolfgang Cramer on 2025-01-17 at 15:48

I have no clue who these "ease" people are, but they just sent me an e-mail. As a journal editor, I find absolutely everything in their message deeply revolting:

No I have no need for a "competitor analysis" - I'd rather like to work with other editors and journals in order to improve scientific publishing.

For me, our journal's "performance" is the quality and amount of service we can give to our authors. This will never be perfect, but I seriously doubt it is the same understanding of "performance" that these guys try to assess.

I have some view about the performance of similar journals and it would be great if editors could talk more about this - without getting into "competition" about anything else than scientific quality and academic values.

Hell, I actually have some "insight in my subject area", if not, then I would not be editing this journal. Who are you to try and lecture me about this?

Our journal has an audience and a community which needs to be nurtured all the time - but not by putting it into competition with similar communities.

And this person on the photo, looking away from the camera - is this somehow a symbolic picture of an editor who is completely lost in the struggle for higher "performance"?

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