: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI2021) (12-15 July 2021, Leuven, Belgium)
The study aims to detect publication contributions of editorial board members (EBMs) to ranks of academic journals as exemplified by Russian Library and Information Science serials. We failed to find any relationship between journal rank and a share of EBMs papers in a parent journal. Citation analyses of papers by EBMs as well as citations of a parent journal made by EBMs from other sources revealed a significant effect of EBM on the rank of top-tiered and low-tiered journals. Zero or negative impact of EBMs papers on the journal rank was registered in the middle-tiered group.
