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Editormetrics analyses the role of editors of academic journals and their impact on the scientific publication system. Such analyses would best rely on open, structured, and machine-readable data about editors and editorial boards, which still remains rare. To address this shortcoming, the project Open Editors collects data about academic journal editors on a large scale and structures them into a single dataset. It does so by scraping the websites of 7,352 journals from 26 publishers (including predatory ones), thereby structuring publicly available information (names, affiliations, editorial roles, ORCID etc.) about 594,580 researchers. The dataset shows that journals and publishers are immensely heterogeneous in terms of editorial board sizes, regional diversity, and editorial role labels. All codes and data are made available at Zenodo , while the result is browsable at a dedicated website (https://openeditors.ooir.org). This dataset carries implications for both practical purposes of research evaluation and for meta-scientific investigations into the landscape of scholarly publications, and allows for critical inquiries regarding the representation of diversity and inclusivity across academia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers updates about the journal. It offers information on the editorial board, publication standard, and author primacy, as well as referee recognition and desk rejection. Also discussed is the journal's editorial policy including replication, research methodologies, and methodological papers for controversial papers and non-result papers. Editor accountability and managing editors' blog is also noted.

The article focuses on the notes to contributors to the periodical "Screen" which are to be submitted online through website of Scholar One Manuscripts. Topics discussed include communication between editorial office, author and reviewers, rules for submitting manuscripts which do not violate copyright, and provides a list of styles for citations of written sources.