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Peer-Review Fraud — Hacking the Scientific Publication Process
Ist Teil von
The New England journal of medicine, 2015-12, Vol.373 (25), p.2393-2395
Ort / Verlag
United States: Massachusetts Medical Society
Erscheinungsjahr
2015
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Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
In a new trend, increasing numbers of scientific articles are being retracted because of fake peer reviews — a type of fraud made possible by electronic manuscript submission systems and inspired by academia's publish-or-perish ethos.
In August 2015, the publisher Springer retracted 64 articles from 10 different subscription journals “after editorial checks spotted fake email addresses, and subsequent internal investigations uncovered fabricated peer review reports,” according to a statement on their website.
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The retractions came only months after BioMed Central, an open-access publisher also owned by Springer, retracted 43 articles for the same reason.
“This is officially becoming a trend,” Alison McCook wrote on the blog Retraction Watch, referring to the increasing number of retractions due to fabricated peer reviews.
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Since it was first reported 3 years ago, when South Korean researcher Hyung-in Moon admitted . . .