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"In a recent project, Bohannon (2013), submitted a fatally flawed paper for publication to 307 OA journals to have it accepted…
"In a recent project, Bohannon (2013), submitted a fatally flawed paper for publication to 307 OA journals to have it accepted…
The problem of fake journals that take your money and publish any old nonsense. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60…
"A spoof paper concocted by Science reveals little or no scrutiny at many open-access journals..." - yet another reminder...
"The goal was to create a credible but mundane scientific paper, one with such grave errors that a competent peer reviewer…
News Who's Afraid of Peer Review? John Bohannon Science 04 Oct 2013:Vol. 342, Issue 6154, pp. 60-65DOI: 10.1126/science.342.6154…
Open access business
Who's Afraid of Peer Review?
Data and Documents
This is an interesting article that offers a glimpse into the publication of scientific research. We really try to make sure…
This just goes to show you can NEVER believe what you read- I am sure some people went out and ate 2 chocolate bars a day to…
profit seeking instead of honesty
The hullabaloo of publicising false science was put to the test by Peter Onneken Lobe and Johannes…
In 2013 John Bohannon submitted 304 fake research papers to open access journals. The papers were designed with such grave…
A reminder of why you need to check and triangulate internet info.
The story behind a spoof (two, actually.)
http://io9.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-chocolate-helps-weight-1707251800 Is the person behind this, the same person…
Thanks to this awesome media hack - http://io9.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-chocolate-helps-weight-1707251800 - and the…
Who's afraid of peer review?
"Any reviewer with more than a high-school knowledge of chemistry and the ability to understand a basic data plot should have…
John Bohannon submitted fake papers to fee-charging open-access scientific journals. Results here: http://www.sciencemag.org/cont…
Flaws in peer review process!
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full
Is peer reviewed really reliable then? m.sciencemag.org
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full www.sciencemag.org
Journals published by Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer, and Sage all accepted my bogus paper. www.sciencemag.org
Conrad Hackett @conradhackett: Journalist faked research article about anticancer chemical. It was accepted by 157 journals. www.
"The most basic obligation of a scientific journal is to perform peer review, arXiv founder Ginsparg says. He laments that a…
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Who's Afraid of Peer Review? Very, very Interesting! http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full www.sciencemag.org
"Over the past 10 months, I have submitted 304 versions of the wonder drug [spoof] paper to open-access journals. More than…
Quality control is a serious challenge that the scientific community as a whole must rise to. From Sokal's hypothesis to…
Scientific research can be mapped onto dance in myriad ways: From Sokal's hypothesis to Bohannon's hypothesis... http://www.scien…
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full www.sciencemag.org
As is sometimes true in life, "what goes around comes around" and here's a nice example. Recently, many in the Open Access (OA…
Open Access sting.
A friend of mine got scammed with an article from a fake journals like this. It's bad enough that so much of what actually…
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full
Poor science.
Please read this article http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full?
A spoof paper concocted by Science reveals little or no scrutiny at many open-access journals
A repost is in order as PubMed publication becomes mantra. Note the red coloured India in the image. And do read.
"... it should have been promptly rejected. Any reviewer with more than a high-school knowledge of chemistry and the ability to…
I think about the fact that my mother died of a massive stroke when taking Vioxx, and this just blows my mind. Probably, a lot…
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60/suppl/DC1 Between January and June 2013, Science contributing correspondent John…
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full.pdf
Z serii: It began in Africa.
Un buen artículo para leer en domingo: Who's Afraid of Peer Review? por John…
Good for Science Mag for keeping science real!
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full this article demonstrates how fake are mostly Indian Publishers/Journals.
Do open-access journals have good peer review?
Story of open access and peer review publications http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full.
Um die Qualität von wissenschaftlichen Artikeln in Open Access Journals ist es schlecht bestellt. Komplett erfundene Studien…
Un journaliste envoie un article "bidon" à 304 journaux scientifique en accès libre (open-access) et plus de la moitié accepte l…
If you are interested in research literacy (or backing up your claims in a group forum) this is great reading.
"On 4 July, good news arrived in the inbox of Ocorrafoo Cobange, a biologist at the Wassee Institute of Medicine in Asmara. It…
More than 50% of the scientific journals in this experiment accepted a ridiculously bogus paper without any qualms... http://www…
8) cooool almost half of locations for payment fees in Pakistan and India,,,, Maaa sadqay jaay ... changi dyarhi laaa rahay nay .
304 versions of same papers accepted in Well reputed journals,,, 8) coooool
The great business of Junk Journals :-) How one person submitted 304 versions of one paper :-)
A nice article to read "Who's Afraid of Peer Review?"
A nice article to read "Who's Afraid of Peer Review?"
Shocking sting operation by Science journal!!!! just check the list of journals including many Indian which publish crap in the…
WOW! A very Damning article on many of the new predatory open access journals.
Some worrisome trends in scientific publishing. This is just another reminder to be careful what you read, even if it has the…
On how articles that should be rejected from publication get published in all sorts of so-called respected, usually open-access…
Artigo do Dr. John Bohannon do qual dará detalhes em sua palestra:
How sad
Trochu surealistické čtení, který ilustruje fungování neviditelné ruky v oblasti vědeckého publikování: u dosavadního modelu se…
So, traditional publishers seem to have started an all out attack on open access, led by the "high profile" journal "Science"!m(s…
"About one-third of the journals targeted in this sting…
บทความจาก "Science" น่าสนใจมากๆ สำหรับการตีพิมพ์ในวารสารแบบ download ฟรี (open access journals) ซึ่งเค้าได้ลองทำ Paper ปลอมๆขึ้นม…
Galingas eksperimentas patikrinant mokslinių open access žurnalus (kurie prieinami nemokamai, nereikia prenumeruoti). Motyvacijų…
Another reason to take ANY "evidence" with something of a grain of salt. It's tough, even for those who can and do read the "rea…
an awesome sting operation for dodgy journal practices
Last night talks about fake academic journals at the Boston Python meet-up was both educational and hilarious, http://www.science…
yang lagi pada rajin publikasi jurnal internasional, ada baiknya juga membaca artikel ini, agar tidak menyesal di kemudian hari.
My Researcher Friends Would Like This Unfortunate But True Story! http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full
Oh scientists, librarians... this is one for you! Other people might be interested too. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342…
a spoof paper accepted by 157 'peer-reviewed' journals!!! a taste of reality
Does anyone remember the "Sokal hoax", when Dr. Alan Sokal published a bogus paper on Social Text, a leading journal in…
Yesss, there is hope for easy publications! (I'm kidding, this is tragic) http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full#!
Be careful folks! //About one-third of the journals targeted in this sting are based in India—overtly or as revealed by the…
It's rather old, but still deserves to be remembered http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full
"A spoof paper concocted by Science reveals little or no scrutiny at many open-access journals."
Finally a good paper to read and mind boggling!
A rather worrying critique of peer review quality in open access journals by John Bohannon in Science- rather reminiscent of…
I have been suspicious of some papers I read in some Journals. Flawed research/papers, published as genuine in journals(fake…
A must read to all in the academia!
Must read ...all the researchers...
Beware researchers and authors, not everything that's published is true.