Fraudulent scientific research is now being produced and published on a large scale, with some unethical researchers colluding with unethical editors to attain the prestige that comes with publication, according to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Large groups of editors and authors appear to have cooperated in what it called “the tide of …
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SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS exist to do one thing: provide accurate, peer-reviewed reports of new research to an interested audience. But according to a paper published in PNAS on August 4th, that lofty goal is badly compromised. Scientific fraud, its authors conclude, happens on a massive scale and is growing quickly. In fact, though the number of scientific articles doubles every 15 …
Read More »Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds The New York Times Scientific Journals Can’t Keep Up With the Flood of Fake Papers From Paper Mills – WSJ The Wall Street Journal Criminal gangs fake science papers for money The Telegraph Fighting coordinated publication fraud is like ‘emptying an overflowing bathtub with a spoon,’ study coauthor says Retraction Watch Organized scientific fraud is growing …
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It was, at first glance, just another scientific paper, one of the millions published every year, and destined to receive little to no attention outside the arcane field of biological signalling in stem cells destined to become sperm. But soon after the paper was published online, in the journal Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, it found a global audience. …
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