A Global Perspective of Editors

Information Systems and Operations Management

Speaker: Talal Rahwan from New York University Abu Dhabi

Room Bernard Ramanantsoa

Abstract
"Scientific editors are the gatekeepers of science, who collectively shape the content of academic journals and set standards for their field of research. In this talk, I will present a series of studies that focus on two aspects of scientific editors: 1) the gender and racial composition of editorial boards, and 2) the competing interests of academic editors. By constructing two large longitudinal datasets of academic editors, I provide empirical evidence to questions such as: Who are underrepresented on editorial boards? Why are they underrepresented? Do academic editors handle papers when they have a conflict of interest? If so, what is the effect of conflict-of-interest policies? These research projects leverage randomized baseline models, natural experiments, and network embedding models to answer causal questions using observational data."