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Last year I wrote a blogpost ( https://tinyurl.com/4v4rulwh ) thinking through what academics should do about sources and references written by people who ended up being sexual predators. 1
The piece ended with a series of questions I had (and still have) about what to do when this happens. I still don't have answers to most of them despite chatting with a lot of people here and elsewhere about the topic. 2
One thing that did come out though was the suggestion that rather than think of a problem individual, it might be helpful to think of citations and references coming in networks. 3
Given that, it might be useful to put explicitly in author and review guidelines that authors are allowed and encouraged to choose the network with which they will engage in their work (instead of assuming there is one empirically correct network of scholarship).
Building on this, authors might be able to flag this in a few sentences in a cover letter on their manuscript submissions. 5
My current question is, do you reckon this would be workable for a journal or academic press?
What would it take to make it workable?
My current question is, do you reckon this would be workable for a journal or academic press?
What would it take to make it workable?
If I can get a bit of help thinking through this, I'd like to propose something like this to the journals I review for. 6
(also, if anyone has answers to the other questions in that piece, I'm all ears, err, eyes? since I'm reading this???)
(also, if anyone has answers to the other questions in that piece, I'm all ears, err, eyes? since I'm reading this???)
