Peer review practices are “delaying science,” academic claims in lawsuit against six publishers

Six large commercial publishers of peer reviewed academic journals are facing a proposed class action lawsuit filed in the US which accuses them of colluding in peer review practices which deprive scientific research of billions of dollars.1The antitrust lawsuit has been filed in the federal district court in New York against Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor and Francis, Sage, Wiley, and Wolters Kluwer by the law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann and Bernstein and the non-profit organisation Justice Catalyst Law. The case has been brought by Lucina Uddin, a professor of neuroscience at the University of California in Los Angeles, who says she has provided peer review services for all six publishers and seeks an order certifying the claim as a class action.The action, which other scholars are invited to join, alleges that the collusion has three elements. It accuses the publishers of agreeing to pay nothing for peer review and to…
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