Gender inequality and self-publication are common among academic editors.

"as for our publications' dataset that is the microsoft academic graph a copy of it is available at https://zenodo org/record/2628216# y4i9mnbp2ul (ref 72 ); a small subset of mag that is sufficient to test our code is also provided. code availability the python code used to collect and clean the editors' dataset as well as the code used in the analysis and visualizations are all freely available to download from https://github com/michael98liu/fair-and-inclusive-scientific-publishing ."

"code availability the python code used to collect and clean the editors' dataset as well as the code used in the analysis and visualizations are all freely available to download from https://github com/michael98liu/fair-and-inclusive-scientific-publishing ."

"Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"We gratefully acknowledge support and resources from the High Performance Computing Center at New York University Abu Dhabi. We thank A. Kyriazidou and C. Haefke for their feedback and comments, which improved the paper. This work was supported by the New York University Abu Dhabi (Global PhD Student Fellowship to F.L.) and JSPS KAKENHI (grant no. JP21H04595 to P.H.). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript."