Conflict of Interest on Special Issue "Cleaner Production for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals"

Recently, the 5GH team found that Biagio F. Giannetti with Universidade Paulista (Brazil) and Beijing Normal University (China) took advantage of his role as guest editor to publish articles on the special issue "Cleaner Production for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals" on the journal "Journal of Cleaner Production".

Last updated on July 12th, 2020, this special issue published 42 articles, 5 of which were coauthored by Biagio F. Giannetti. This is against the policy from the publisher Elsevier, allowing the guest editors to publish maximum one article on their special issue.

Additionally, 2 articles [1-2] coauthored by Biagio F. Giannetti were handled/edited by Cecília Maria Almeida, the editor in chief of the journal. Because Giannetti and Almeida frequently co-author with each other, including on article [3] on the same special issue, concerns are raised about the conflict of interest on these two articles.



Reference

[1] 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.118097

[2] 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.118019

[3] 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.122127






Author: WU Guangheng

Founder and Chair of the 5GH Foundation

E-Mail: wu@5gh.org.cn

Document ID: 5GH-WuGH-20240816.001

Publication Date: 2024.08.16

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