Academic publishers defeat lawsuit over ‘peer review’ pay, other restrictions | Reuters
peter.suber's bookmarks 2026-02-02
Summary:
"A group of major academic publishers convinced a judge in New York to dismiss a lawsuit accusing them of thwarting competition by barring scholars from submitting papers to multiple journals simultaneously and denying pay for “peer review” services.
In his ruling on Friday, U.S. District Judge Hector Gonzalez in the federal court in Brooklyn said the four scholars, scientists and professors who filed the lawsuit in 2024 had not shown sufficient evidence of a conspiracy involving publishers Elsevier, John Wiley & Sons, Sage Publications, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis and Wolters Kluwer."