Bullying within the suicide research community exists and is not different to any other research area. It starts verbally, sometimes in a written format – when the bully is not very careful and gets distracted from their powerful position that nothing will happen to them if they disrespect researchers/students – and can continue into withdrawing the name of the target from any publication, until the point that a publication may not see the light of the sun because the target was the leading author in an output.
