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It’s often at this stage that journals realise that their editorial board is composed almost entirely of colleagues from the same university that publishes the journal. This phenomenon, known as #editorialendogamy, raises concerns about the independence of editorial decisions. If the editor-in-chief, deputy editors, editorial board members, technical editors all, or the majority of them, come from the same university or faculty, the risk of institutional influence grows.

STOPDISINFORMATION Jan 2

Editorial endogamy & endogeny: Challenges on the path to DOAJ – DOAJ Blog
A common problem seen in DOAJ applications is endogeny, i.e., editorial board members publishing too often in their own journals. In this guest post, Maryna Nazarovets and Serhii Nazarovets discuss the related idea of #editorialendogamy and how university journal publishers can uphold editorial independence & avoid #nepotism.

https://blog.doaj.org/2025/12/04/editorial-endogamy-and-endogeny-challenges-on-the-path-to-doaj/

Editorial endogamy and endogeny: Challenges on the path to DOAJ – DOAJ Blog

Serhii Nazarovets Oct 6

Our new article in the Journal of Academic Ethics 📗 explores editorial endogamy — the over-representation of editors from the same university that owns or hosts a journal:

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10805-025-09687-z

Such closed structures often undermine peer-review integrity, reduce transparency, and turn journals into internal bulletins rather than genuine academic platforms.

#AcademicIntegrity #EditorialBoards #EditorialEndogamy #UniversityJournals #ScholarlyCommunication #OpenAccess
#PeerReview