I would be so tempted to have a fake personality respond to this email, if I were to receive it. I would not even be surprised if they were to accept a non-existing scholar, whom they never emailed, onto their editorial board.

True. On the other hand, showing these types of country statistics without taking the population sizes into account is somewhat misleading. 3 mass shootings in a country of just 5.6 million people (Finland) does not compare favourably to 109 shootings in a country of 340 million (US).

I'm very curious: Is it open review that makes reviewers behave more constructive, or is it more of a selection bias, i.e. that only the more constructive reviewers are willing to partake in open review? Yes, I know that is hard to answer!

I don't speak French, but I still love the term "moronisation"!

I had to Google: www.europeanproceedings.com/article/10.1...