Fig. 4: Extreme editors and extreme editorial boards.
From: Gender inequality and self-publication are common among academic editors
To preserve anonymity, ticks on the x axis and y axis are hidden and Gaussian noise is added to the bar heights. Out of all editors who publish at least 30 papers throughout their careers, subfigures (a), (b) and (c) correspond to the editor with the highest, second highest and third highest number of self-publications, respectively. For each of these editors, we show the total number of papers they publish as well as how many of those papers are published in the editor’s journal(s); results are aggregated over 5-year periods to preserve anonymity. The horizontal line(s) underneath the plot represent the span of the editorship(s). Out of all journals that have at least 30 papers, subfigures (d), (e) and (f) depict the journal with the highest, second highest and third highest proportion of papers whose authors include an editor of that journal, respectively.
