Medical Journal Editors Quit

Unhappy with management, two editors-in-chief of the Croatian Medical Journal bid the publication goodbye.

Written byJef Akst
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The fight’s been ongoing for 10 years now, but it has finally come to this: the two editors-in-chief of the Croatian Medical Journal (CMJ) have resigned.

With an impact factor of 1.45—the highest for any Croatian journal—CMJ has grown into a highly respected publication in the 20 years since its launch. But after a decade of fighting with the journal’s management board, Editor-in-Chief Ana Marušic, co-editor-in-chief Ivan Damjanov of the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Kansas City, and 18 of the journal's the journal’s 27 editorial board members quit last week, ScienceInsider reports.

The bold move came after a decade of battling with the journal’s management board, many of whom work at the University of Zagreb. In 2008, for example, the medical faculty ...

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