As Director of Publishing Ethics and Integrity at Taylor & Francis Group, Sabina Alam provides support and guidance for more than 2,500 journals covering the scientific, technical, and medical (STM) disciplines, as well as the humanities and social sciences. Given the mix of different topics and issues that can arise in a broad portfolio of journals, the challenge of Sabina’s position is to think broadly about how integrity of published content is established and how this can be communicated to authors, editors, and readers. Science Editor’s Anna Jester recently spoke with Sabina about trustworthiness in peer review, her path toward scholarly publishing, important scholarly publishing developments, and why examining policies and procedures is vital. Science Editor: Is the job of Director of Publishing Ethics and Integrity one that’s been around for a while in your organization or is it a newer position? Dr Sabina Alam: Taylor & Francis launched their Research Integrity and Ethics Team in 2017. I was not there at the time, but it entailed Research Integrity Managers working with editorial teams to resolve ethics and integrity cases as needed (e.g., dealing with authorship disputes, plagiarism, image integrity concerns, etc). Within a short time, though, ethics cases grew in volume as well as complexity, and in 2019, Taylor & Francis realized someone was needed at the Director level, so I stepped into the position to lead the team in driving and enhancing the ethics function for the journals published by the organization. This involves refining our editorial policies, […]