Posted on 10/01/2022 6:31:17 PM PDT by T Ruth
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Retraction Watch reports:
After months of investigation that identified networks of reviewers and editors manipulating the peer review process, Hindawi plans to retract 511 papers across 16 journals, Retraction Watch has learned.
The retractions, which the publisher and its parent company, Wiley, will announce tomorrow in a blog post, will be issued in the next month, and more may come as its investigation continues. They are not yet making the list available.
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My own view as someone who left academia after becoming a Harvard professor is that corruption has infiltrated the academy along with careerism and politicization. Correcting the situation will not be easy, but a first step would be to institute criminal penalties for research and review fraud. A “cultural revolution” of sorts is needed in academia, with a pervasive ethic of honesty enforced by social pressure as well as laws.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
it would be interesting to study those papers to see if there was a larger plan or intention involved
follow the science, and its corruption.
The field of the withdrawn work is physics.
I guess there wasn’t enough diversity, inclusion and equity.
Wiley ain’t what it used to be.
Sigh.
Wiley, Hindawi, IOP, and PLOS...
Wow...
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