A class action accusing scientific publishing giants of conspiring not to pay peer reviewers has been dismissed.
The lawsuit by four US academics — neuroscientist Dr Lucina Uddin (PhD), a public health researcher, a geoscientist and a second neuroscientist — alleged that six academic publishers had formed an illegal anti-competitive agreement to keep peer review unpaid.
The agreement, the International Ethical Principles for Scholarly Publication, was signed more than 10 years ago by Elsevier, John Wiley & Sons, Sage Publishing, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, Wolters Kluwer, plus other publishers.
The principles say, “It is generally agreed that scholars who wish to have their own work published in journals have an obligation to do a fair share of reviewing for these journals.”
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