This article references a case where a case where a publisher (American Scientific Publishers) was identified as "displaying a problematic pattern of citations". Phil Davis surveys some of the measures journals take to prevent this. "Editors need to be insulated from the business of publishing, which often means keeping them away from their colleagues in marketing, sales, and advertising" and "many publishers have explicit rules that prevent editors from handling their own paper or the papers of authors very closely associated with them." The editing process is an important part of the provenance of the paper, but it is also usually hidden from view. Openness would do a lot more to help here than policy, especially as we move from more formal publishing environments to things like blog networks and data exchanges.
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