From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 19:07:42 -0500

"The editorial board of the *International Journal of Occupation and
Environmental Health* resigned last week in protest of various editorial
decisions, according to Retraction Watch. The board has for months
criticized actions taken by the journal, including its appointment of a new
editor with ties to industry and what the board has described as the
“unilateral withdrawal” of a 2016 paper critical of corporate-sponsored
research. A previous editor oversaw the withdrawal, but the board in its
resignation letter said it did not wish to follow the journal as it pursues
an “apparent new direction.”

"Taylor & Francis, the journal’s publisher, told Retraction Watch this week
that it was sorry the board “did not wish to take the opportunities offered
by ourselves and the editor in chief to discuss the journal’s future.” The
publisher said it had no plans to make major changes to the journal and
denied that any paper had been “unilaterally retracted.” Rather, it said,
the paper in question was withdrawn because it was “published
inadvertently, before the review process had been completed.”

[SNIP]

https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/12/01/journal
s-editorial-board-resigns-protest