Md. Street et al., AUTHOR PERCEPTIONS OF POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EDITOR BEHAVIORS IN THE MANUSCRIPT REVIEW PROCESS, Journal of social behavior and personality, 13(1), 1998, pp. 1-22
Despite the central role that editors play in the publication process,
little empirical research has systematically examined the behavior of
journal editors. The purpose of this paper is to address this gap by
investigating two main issues: (I) the identification of distinct beha
viors that constitute positive and negative editor conduct, and (2) th
e identification and examination of any independent dimensions underly
ing these editor behaviors. Data generated from focus group interviews
and the extant literature on the publication process were used to dev
elop a mail survey to collect author perceptions of editor behavior. E
xploratory factor analysis results based on data from 111 researchers
in the organizational sciences suggest that author perceptions of edit
or behavior can be represented by five dimensions: consideration of au
thors, decision making, ethics, thoroughness, and editorial interventi
on.