Authors are not criminals and editors should not be policemen.
Authors are a necessary and most appreciated basis for the publishing of any scientific journal. They should be welcomed for their creativity, originality and productivity, not stigmatized in general as cheaters and criminals because a very few were tempted beyond their control to cut the slices a bit too thin, overdo the utilization of leftover data, listed too many authors to a paper, forgot to report a harmless study to an ethical committee, or in very few cases commit severe actions of fraud. The managerial way of thinking, meeting every author with systems of control and limitations is like poison to creative minds. Instead of appointing editors as policemen, we may preferably meet the vast majority of classical scholarly working scientists with trust, confidence and support, facilitating the process of disseminating the results from their creative minds--and of course consequently show the deliberately cheating researchers the door when they act unfaithfully to the scientific society.
Povl Munk
PM
Jorgensen
D001319:Authorship; D035081:Editorial Policies; D011643:Publishing / Q000592:standards*; D015871:Scientific Misconduct