Thread by @Ayjchan

There should be a special designation for papers that are published in journals where one of the authors is the editor-in-chief or on the executive board of the journal.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
springer.com/journal/10393

Thank you @franciscodeasis for the heads up on this article. I'm also interested to see where this article will be published (preprinted on June 22): biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I went to look for declaration(s) of competing/conflicts of interests, but there are none.

Reminder: this is totally fine, but it would be more reassuring if the peer reviews were co-published with the paper.

I don't understand why an article (Lee et al. EcoHealth) that says pangolins were infected with SARS viruses in China is published internally.

Whereas articles saying that pangolins are a likely intermediate host of SARS2 are published in @nature

Xiao et al. @Nature Mind the Editor's Note.
"these animals have the potential to act as an intermediate host of SARS-CoV-2."
nature.com/articles/s4158…

Lam et al. @Nature which uses the same dataset for the pangolin CoV with the SARS2-like spike RBD - "pangolins should be considered as possible hosts in the emergence of new coronaviruses"
nature.com/articles/s4158…

In other words, I want to see the editorial and peer reviews of all of these pangolin CoV papers. I want to see if the journal editor solicited any of these papers - especially if they were both author and editor-in-chief of the journal.