9 years ago
Major publisher retracts 43 scientific papers amid wider fake peer-review scandal
An investigation by "BiomMed Central" has revealed a scheme to "deceive" journal editors by suggesting fake reviewers for submitted articles. The spectrum of ‘fakery’ has ranged from authors suggesting their friends who agree in advance to provide a positive review, to elaborate peer review circles where a group of authors agree to peer review each others’ manuscripts, to impersonating real people, and to generating completely fictitious characters.
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Related scandal from the Journal of Vibration and Control
Last year, in one of the most publicized scandals, the Journal of Vibration and Control, in the field of acoustics, retracted 60 articles at one time due to what it called a “peer review and citation ring” in which the reviews, mostly from scholars in Taiwan, were submitted by people using fake name
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