4 Diabetes Care Editors Boycott ADA Journal Duties After June Meeting Removals
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Updated · STAT · Sep 11
4 Diabetes Care Editors Boycott ADA Journal Duties After June Meeting Removals
3 articles · Updated · STAT · Sep 11
Summary
Four editors of the ADA’s flagship journal, Diabetes Care, said they will stop reviewing manuscript submissions as part of a boycott announced Thursday.
Steven Kahn — the journal’s editor-in-chief — said the action protests how the American Diabetes Association handled the removal of members from its June meeting in New Orleans and its response afterward.
Kahn was among five members ousted from the conference center for handing out copies of a Diabetes Care editorial on federal cuts to research funding; the other editors joining the boycott are Cheryl Anderson, John Buse and Elizabeth Selvin.
The ADA said it is aware of the effort and remains focused on its mission, but the boycott marks a sharper escalation in a dispute over leadership conduct and the organization’s treatment of dissenting members.