(7 April 2015) “The idealised view of science as the curiosity-driven pursuit of knowledge to understand and improve the world around us has been tarnished,” write Scott Edmunds and Rob Davidson. “Recent news tells of systematic fraud and mass retraction of research papers from the Chinese academic system, and allegations of attempts to game the peer-review system on an industrial scale.”
Their article in the South China Morning Post looks at the focus on impact factor and its manipulation, Chinese ‘paper mills’ producing scientific papers to order, and the current fallout in the paper review system.
SCMP has the full article here.
