Posted on 08/24/2015 8:02:01 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A leading scientific publisher has retracted 64 articles in 10 journals, after an internal investigation discovered fabricated peer-review reports linked to the articles’ publication.
Berlin-based Springer announced the retractions in an 18 August statement. In May, Springer merged with parts of Macmillan Science and Education — which publishes Nature — to form the new company Springer Nature.
The cull comes after similar discoveries of ‘fake peer review’ by several other major publishers, including London-based BioMed Central, an arm of Springer, which began retracting 43 articles in March citing "reviews from fabricated reviewers". The practice can occur when researchers submitting a paper for publication suggest reviewers, but supply contact details for them that actually route requests for review back to the researchers themselves.
(Excerpt) Read more at nature.com ...
Science deniers?
This comes after 10 years ago a study found that 2/3 of the “established studies” and accepted research either partially or wholly could not be replicated.
Hmmmm...
How does one retract an article without specifying which article has been retracted and where it was published?
That’s a jaw dropping statistic.
Yes. But what if THAT study was faked?
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I don’t think this is the first time getting caught for them.
...letting Iran inspect themselves.
One of the comments following the Nature article shows a big assist the Journals themselves are giving fraudulent authors.
“The journals should stop asking for reviewers names when the author submits their paper. Some journals don’t let you go to next step until you enter some names.”
This is a big problem inviting fraud.
But but but SCIENCE, PEOPLE! SCIIIIIIENCE!!!
That settles it. ;)
That's one of the functions of journal editors, to select reviewers themselves. They're supposed to know who are the experts relative to the article being reviewed.
I spent 40 years as Associate Editor of a major international journal. Knowing who the appropriate reviewers were was part of my job.
I long for the day where the wholesale corruption of science is met with tar and feathers.
But the sweet part is that
They recant the grant.
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