Re: The Importance of Evidence
Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2015 6:26 pm
An editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine has called attention to the problem of peer-review fraud, wherein people chosen to review manuscripts are associated with the author or are the author using a fake identify.
Haug CJ. Peer-review fraud: Hacking the scientific publication process. New England Journal of Medicine 373:2393-2395, 2015
http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMp1512330
The editorial writer notes:
- Within the past few years, more than 250 articles that underwent fake peer-review have been retracted.
- Most of the articles originated from China and Southeast Asia.
- Pressure to publish, quickly and preferably in the very best journals, can influence both authors and editors to game the system.
- Verifying the identity of peer-reviewers should reduce the problem, but new ways of gaming the traditional publication models will be invented more quickly than new control measures can be put in place.
Haug CJ. Peer-review fraud: Hacking the scientific publication process. New England Journal of Medicine 373:2393-2395, 2015
http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMp1512330
The editorial writer notes:
- Within the past few years, more than 250 articles that underwent fake peer-review have been retracted.
- Most of the articles originated from China and Southeast Asia.
- Pressure to publish, quickly and preferably in the very best journals, can influence both authors and editors to game the system.
- Verifying the identity of peer-reviewers should reduce the problem, but new ways of gaming the traditional publication models will be invented more quickly than new control measures can be put in place.