Dozens of Editorial Board Members Resign from Journal

More than 70 editors left the Journal of Molecular Medicine after SpringerNature closed an editorial office and selected a new editor-in-chief.

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ISTOCK, SEAN_KUMAMost of the editorial board of the Journal of Molecular Medicine quit in protest after the publisher, SpringerNature, appointed a different editor-in-chief than editors had recommended and closed an office in Germany.

Retraction Watch reports that on December 1, more than 70 editorial board members, including three former editors-in-chief, wrote in a letter that “the unilateral decision of SpringerNature to disregard the recommendations of the editorial board without engaging in any dialogue or discussion with the editorial board has jeopardized the future and scholarly legacy of the Journal.”

The editors had wanted to install Martin Lohse of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine as the editor-in-chief to succeed Detlev Ganten of the Charité Foundation. SpringerNature instead selected Ari Waisman, an immunology researcher at the University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz. “As a logical step to this new direction for the journal, Springer decided to reorganise the editorial office in close collaboration with the newly ...

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    Kerry Grens

    Kerry served as The Scientist’s news director until 2021. Before joining The Scientist in 2013, she was a stringer for Reuters Health, the senior health and science reporter at WHYY in Philadelphia, and the health and science reporter at New Hampshire Public Radio. Kerry got her start in journalism as a AAAS Mass Media fellow at KUNC in Colorado. She has a master’s in biological sciences from Stanford University and a biology degree from Loyola University Chicago.

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