Contact information for integrity/ethics teams at major publishers


American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, Science, Science Advances, etc.): science_data@aaas.org

American Chemical Society (ACS): Each journal usually has contact information for a managing editor, usually at managing.editor@ < journal-url > .org

American Society for Microbiology: ethics.journals@asmusa.org

Association for Computer Machinery: services.acm.org/ethics/report.cfm

British Medical Journal (BMJ): publication.ethics@bmj.com

Cambridge University Press (CUP): publishingethics@cambridge.org

Elsevier (Elsevier, Cell Press, etc.): ethicsexpert@elsevier.com

Frontiers: research.integrity@frontiersin.org

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE): pub-ethics@ieee.org

Karger: publication.ethics@karger.com

MDPI: publication.ethics@mdpi.com

Oxford University Press (OUP): journals.ethics@oup.com

PLOS: pub-ethics@plos.org

Royal Society of Chemistry (RCS): publishingethics@rsc.org

Rockefeller University Press (Journal of Cell Biology, Life Science Alliance, etc.): integrity@rupress.org

Sage (Sage, Mary-Ann Liebert): publication_ethics@sagepub.com

Springer Nature (Springer, Nature, BMC): ethics.reporting@springernature.com

Taylor & Francis (Taylor & Francis, Dove Medical Press, CRC Press, Routledge): ethics@tandf.co.uk

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET): ethics@theiet.org

Thieme: publishingethics@thieme.de

Wiley (Wiley, Hindawi, FEBS Press): researchintegrity@wiley.com

Wolters Kluwer: customer.service@wolterskluwer.com



Reference

[1] 10.17605/OSF.IO/2KDEZA






Author: WU Guangheng

Founder and Chair of the 5GH Foundation

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

Document ID: 5GH-2025-000008.R6

Publication Date: 2025.08.23

This article is licensed under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License

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