Over 500 scientific papers to be withdrawn
by publisher
Posted By: Judy W., 10/1/2022 3:08:54 PM
There’s good news that a major publisher of scientific journals is cleaning out the stable of papers whose review process appears corrupted, but the bad news is worse. Not only were these papers published in the first place, but the easily-corrupted system of peer review – which is supposed to be the quality assurance mechanism for the creation and dissemination of scientific knowledge – remains in place with no additional safeguards. (Snip) Hindawi’s research integrity team found several signs of manipulated peer reviews for the affected papers, including reviews that contained duplicated text, a few individuals who did a lot of reviews, reviewers who turned in their reviews
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There’s good news that a major publisher of scientific journals is cleaning out the stable of papers whose review process appears corrupted, but the bad news is worse. Not only were these papers published in the first place, but the easily-corrupted system of peer review – which is supposed to be the quality assurance mechanism for the creation and dissemination of scientific knowledge – remains in place with no additional safeguards. (Snip)
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The term "peer review and citation rings" is used. In a way that makes me laugh, but when science publishing becomes corrupt like this, Lifson's conclusion is right: This kind of behavior should receive criminal penalties. Science that affects people's lives through public policy must be based on truth. (As should all science, of course.)