A management journal has removed from its masthead an editor who was the subject of a Retraction Watch post last month.
Shalini Srivastava, a professor at the Jaipuria Institute of Management in India, was an associate editor at Employee Relations, an Emerald Publishing title. We reported last month that two articles she coauthored — one in Employee Relations and another in the Journal of Organizational Change Management, also an Emerald journal — were retracted because “a large portion of this article’s models, samples, and results are taken, without full and proper attribution, from” earlier work, both retraction notices read.
Following our report, Srivastava’s name disappeared from the editorial team page of Employee Relations. Asked to comment on the change, a spokesperson from Emerald’s research integrity department replied:
Following investigations into several articles authored by Prof. Srivastava, the editor and publisher for Employee Relations made the decision to remove Prof. Srivastava as an Associate Editor for the journal. Prof. Srivastava agreed with this decision.
Srivastava, who did not respond to our request for comment to our first story, responded when asked this week about the new retractions and the removal from the editorial team:
Our team has provided all the relevant information and documents to justify our cases, but the Journals were not convinced in accepting our point of view. The final decision is with the Journals which we as authors having no other option but to accept.
Meanwhile, three additional papers on which Srivastava is a coauthor have been retracted. “Perceived stress and psychological well-being of working mothers during COVID-19: a mediated moderated roles of teleworking and resilience,” published in April 2021 in Employee Relations, was retracted on January 27. The notice used the same phrasing as the previous two, citing substantial overlap with yet another paper, “Workplace bullying and job burnout: A moderated mediation model of emotional intelligence and hardiness,” published in September 2019, in the International Journal of Organizational Analysis, also an Emerald title. That paper was retracted on January 29.
The third paper, “Assessing the Relationship between Personality Variable and Managerial Effectiveness: An Empirical Study on Private Sector Managers,” published in 2011 by Management and Labour Studies, a Sage journal, was retracted February 4. The retraction notice cites “substantial unattributed overlap” to three published articles, as well as “some concerns about the reported data.”
An anonymous poster flagged two of the newly retracted articles on PubPeer in November. Sleuth Elisabeth Bik posted about the third after receiving an email tip from an anonymous account.
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