Supporting academic freedom as a human right: challenges and solutions in academic publishing

This article explores academic freedom as it relates to scholarly publishing. While most discussions of a human right focus on threats individuals’ personal safety and careers, we open this out include the ‘soft repression’ that is possible encounter during publication process, its potential impact record. An overview given some ethical issues encountered by editors publishers working with authors experiencing academic, intellectual, or political repression – for example, manifestation these in authorship, metadata, transparency reproducibility, research ethics, competing interests. We go formulate suggestions managing such conflicts while upholding freedoms integrity