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Educational Philosophy and Theory· 2026Q1

The invisible handshake: The bounds of trust in the collegial world of academic publishing

Leon Benadé, Jennifer Charteris

Short summary

Academic publishing relies on an 'invisible handshake' of trust among scholars, but this trust is bounded and can be distorted by ethical issues, impacting collaboration.

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Key points

  • Collaboration is fundamental to academic life but susceptible to ethical challenges.
  • Academic publishing functions on an implicit 'invisible handshake' of trust among researchers.
  • This trust is bounded and can be compromised by ethical distortions.
  • Ethical breaches can negatively affect the collaborative nature of academia.

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Abstract

Collaboration is both indispensable to academic life (Dean & Timmermans, 2022) and vulnerable to ethical distortion (Macfarlane, 2017). Collaboration is often associated with intellectual community...

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