About This Role
This Senior Editor position is a 12-month fixed-term contract within the PLOS Publication Ethics team, which works to uphold the integrity and reliability of PLOS publications. The role involves investigating and resolving publication ethics cases for all PLOS journals, providing support to journal teams, and contributing to team-level initiatives addressing ethics and integrity issues. This role focuses on a broad array of integrity issues, typically involving individual articles or research groups.
Responsibilities
- Resolve publication ethics cases efficiently and in line with PLOS standards and COPE guidance
- Provide timely support for others’ publication ethics case work
- Address escalations and queries about publication ethics issues
- Prevent reputational damage to PLOS journals as feasible
- Contribute to tasks, cases, documentation, and other processes needed to support the team’s casework and other objectives
- Contribute to team-level and/or cross-functional initiatives and projects that address ethics and integrity issues at PLOS (e.g., development of workflows or policy updates; development, trials, and/or implementation of approaches to improve detection, prevention, and/or resolution of publication ethics cases)
- Support journal staff editors in resolving publication ethics issues that arise during manuscript handling, peer review, or post-publication
- Communicate rapidly and effectively about ethics cases with involved/affected stakeholders, including the journal’s editorial leads, Editorial Board members, authors, members of other PLOS teams, and any other parties involved in publication ethics case work
- Contribute to internal discussions about publication ethics, research integrity, and related issues in team-level and interdepartmental/cross-team forums
- Maintain an awareness of cross-industry issues and initiatives and attend COPE Forums that fall within your working hours
- Help with recruitment and onboarding for vacant team positions
- Help to train staff on other PLOS teams in publication ethics case management and standards
- Provide training and feedback for other Publication Ethics team members as needed
- Uphold high standards of professionalism in all internal and external communications about publication ethics issues
Requirements
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, both written and oral
- Highly organized and efficient self-starter with excellent attention to detail and excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
- A collaborative team player who is comfortable working with a remote team
- A commitment to open access and research integrity
- Familiarity with peer review, publishing, editorial decision-making, and publication ethics issues and standards