Post-Publication Discrimination and Racism: A Nail in the Coffin of Academic Medical Publishing

Discrimination and racism are deeply rooted in many aspects of the daily life activities societies. Academic medical publishing is not immune. There reports about pre-publication discrimination academic publishing. This may be practiced at different levels. It involve editorial leadership, members board unfair peer review. type reflected low number accepted publications coming from developing countries. manifest even after publication “post-publication”. appears form continuous harassment authors by throwing accusations scientific misconduct years original documents. situation will never improve without serious actions. Authors who were exposed to post-publication /racism should invited suggest ideologies fight this practice. A blacklist for those involved these practices become available help editors avoid misleading claims. The highly esteemed journals include well known countries with sound conduct established reputation.