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Not all fake papers are retracted
- These fake papers have serious consequences for research and its impact on society. Not all fake papers are retracted. And even those that are often still make their way into systematic literature reviews which are, in turn, used to draw up policy guidelines, clinical guidelines, and funding agendas.
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Dec 12, 2023 · The number of retractions issued for research articles in 2023 has passed 10,000 — smashing annual records — as publishers struggle to clean up a slew of sham papers and peer-review fraud.
- The fight against fake-paper factories that churn out sham ...
Since last January, journals have retracted at least 370...
- Biomedical paper retractions have quadrupled in 20 years — why?
The retraction rate for European biomedical-science papers...
- The fight against fake-paper factories that churn out sham ...
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In January 2020, Bik and other image detectives who work under pseudonyms — Smut Clyde, Morty and Tiger BB8 — posted, on a blog run by science journalist Leonid Schneider, a list of more than 400 published papers they said probably came from a paper mill. Bik dubbed it the ‘tadpole’ paper mill, because of the shapes that appeared in the papers’ wes...
The problem of organized fraud in publishing is not new, and not confined to China, notes Catriona Fennell, who heads publishing services at the world’s largest scientific publisher, Elsevier. “We’ve seen evidence of industrialized cheating from several other countries, including Iran and Russia,” she told Nature last year. Others have also reporte...
Image-integrity sleuths and journal editors have identified a range of features in manuscripts that could be fingerprints of a paper mill. “We’re wondering how we protect ourselves from publishing this stuff,” says Jana Christopher, an image-integrity analyst at the publisher FEBS Press in Heidelberg, Germany, who screens incoming manuscripts for a...
Journal editors know that if they reject manuscripts they suspect to be fabricated, that might not kill the paper forever. Fraudulent manuscripts can be submitted to multiple journals at the same time: so even if an editor rejects it during peer review, they might see it published elsewhere. This has happened to Christopher, who 3 years ago saw ala...
Publishers say that they are limited in what they can do to share information between journals because even titles within the same stable are editorially independent of one another. They’re wary of sharing information between titles or publishers about an author that could be defamatory, and data-protection rules hinder the sharing of authors’ pers...
- Holly Else, Richard Van Noorden
- 2021
May 31, 2024 · The retraction rate for European biomedical-science papers increased fourfold between 2000 and 2021, a study of thousands of retractions has found. Two-thirds of these papers were withdrawn...
- Holly Else
Oct 25, 2018 · A disturbingly large portion of papers—about 2%—contain "problematic" scientific images that experts readily identified as deliberately manipulated, according to a study of 20,000 papers published in mBio in 2016 by Elisabeth Bik of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and colleagues.
Jul 6, 2024 · Retracting already published fake papers is also a very important step, but unfortunately less effective, because it does not prevent the fake papers from being cited in the meantime, and the citing does not even stop after the retraction (Candal-Pedreira et al. 2020; Wittau and Seifert 2023).
Mar 6, 2024 · Not all fake papers are retracted. And even those that are often still make their way into systematic literature reviews which are, in turn, used to draw up policy guidelines, clinical...
Apr 13, 2023 · An investigation by STM and its companion body, the Committee on Publication Ethics, showed that between 2 and 46 per cent of papers submitted to journals were fake.
