Editorial standards

These are the rules an article has to satisfy before it goes live. They exist because the field this Journal covers is unusually full of numbers that nobody can trace.

Every figure has a primary source

A statistic in an article links to the organisation that produced it, not to whoever repeated it. Where a number is widely quoted but the trail runs into a dead link or a press release without a study behind it, we say that in the article rather than passing it on. Every piece ends with its full source list, and those sources are also emitted as machine readable citations.

Figures carry dates, and so do we

Survey data ages. Each article shows when it was published and when it was last checked against its sources, and each figure in the text names the year it refers to. Where a source structurally lags — measured outcomes usually arrive a year after the period they describe — the article explains the gap instead of leaving the reader wondering whether they have landed on something stale.

Quotes are verbatim, attributed and linked

Where an article quotes a researcher or practitioner, the person is real and publicly identifiable, the words are theirs verbatim, and the link goes to the exact page where they published them. We do not paraphrase into quotation marks, we do not stitch together sentences that were not adjacent, and we do not quote anonymous “experts”.

Commercial relationships

Radyant Digital GmbH is paid to produce this Journal by a client that sells in the leadership development market. Three things follow, and they are commitments rather than aspirations:

• No client reads an article before publication, and none has editorial approval.
• Where the Journal compares providers, every provider is assessed against the same published evidence. A vendor claim that cannot be verified independently is reported as a claim, whoever makes it.
• Where the evidence favours a provider we have no relationship with, the article says so plainly. An article that cannot do that is not worth publishing, and a Journal that cannot do that is not worth reading.

What we do not run

No sponsored posts, no guest articles placed for a link, no affiliate links, and no advertising. There is no tracking on this site: no analytics, no tag manager, no consent layer, because there is nothing to consent to.

Images

Lead photographs come from Unsplash, are hosted here rather than hotlinked, and credit the photographer in the caption as the licence requires. Alt text is written by us; the descriptions that ship with stock photos describe the picture, not the point it is making. Charts are drawn from the underlying data and name their source under the figure.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, write to hello@radyant.io. We correct the article, move the check date, and note what changed. More on who we are is on the about page.