我们的编辑部工作人员注意到一个决定信,即处理编辑指示提交人引用处理编辑发布的文章。工作人员想知道这是否发生了此前并通过该编辑审查了最近的决策信件。This revealed a concerning pattern of behaviour—the handling editor’s decision letters (including reviewers’ comments) asked authors to add citations of his work more than 50 times, three times more often than he asked authors to add citation of work he did not co-author.