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HighWire Press launches integration with Peer Review Evaluation Service for Science journals

eJournals, Publishers, ToolsMarch 16, 2016

(15 March 2016) American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announced that all journals in the Science family, including Science, Science Translational Medicine, Science Signaling, and Science Advances, now feature the PRE “badge” on articles published in 2016 and beyond. By clicking the badge, readers can quickly see detailed information about the peer-review process, including the number of reviewers…

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F1000 and ORCID partner to launch standard for citing peer review activities

ToolsMay 19, 2015

(18 May 2015) ORCID and F1000 have partnered to develop a practical means to cite peer review activities, based on a standard set of terms and the use of persistent identifiers. “The formal but completely transparent peer review process post-publication used on both the F1000Prime article recommendation service and on articles published in F1000Research provides…

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China must restructure its academic incentives to curb research fraud

Asia Pacific, PublishersApril 8, 2015

(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…

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Inappropriate manipulation of peer review

PublishersMarch 28, 2015

(26 March 2015) In November last year, BioMed Central uncovered evidence of repeated and inappropriate attempts to manipulate the peer review process of several journals (see the original statement and update). The apparent intention was to deceive Editors and positively influence the outcome of peer review by suggesting fabricated reviewers. Although only a handful of…

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Thomson Reuters collaborates with BMJ Publishing to optimize its peer review process

Publishers, ToolsSeptember 14, 2014

(12 September 2014, Philadelphia) Thomson Reuters is collaborating with British Medical Journals (BMJ) to optimize the efficiency of the article peer-review process and solve the industry-wide problem of reviewer fatigue by utilizing ScholarOneTM Reviewer Locator, an extension of ScholarOne Manuscripts, the innovative peer-review and online submission program for scholarly publishers. As part of ScholarOne Manuscripts,…

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Education minister resigns over research fraud scandal

Asia Pacific, PublishersJuly 15, 2014

(14 July 2014) Taiwan’s Education Minister Chiang Wei-ling resigned on Monday 14 July over his links to a researcher whose papers were retracted from an international scientific journal because of alleged fraud. SAGE, the British publisher of the Journal of Vibration and Control or JVC, where the papers appeared, announced on 8 July that it…

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SAGE statement on Journal of Vibration and Control

PublishersJuly 10, 2014

(8 July 2014, London) SAGE announces the retraction of 60 articles implicated in a peer review and citation ring at the Journal of Vibration and Control (JVC). The full extent of the peer review ring has been uncovered following a 14 month SAGE-led investigation, and centres on the strongly suspected misconduct of Peter Chen, formerly…

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(ad3h2o x 2) + interferon based neutrinos should be centrifuged then boiled for 30 minutes

UncategorizedFebruary 26, 2014

(26 February 2014) Publishers have withdrawn more than 120 gibberish papers from their websites. The papers were generated using SCIgen, software invented by researchers at MIT in 2005. Some of the gobbledygook papers were peer reviewed, several are conference papers. This worrying, amusing and flabbergasting article on the Nature website is well worth a read.

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Who’s Afraid of Peer Review? DOAJ responds

eJournals, Open AccessOctober 24, 2013

(18 October 2013) Two weeks ago today DOAJ published an initial response to the John Bohannon ‘sting’ article published in Science Magazine. (See here). The response came a day after the article’s embargo broke, while Twitter, blogs and news sites were excitedly discussing the article’s implications, the shortcomings of its methodology and the failings. Now…

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Who’s Afraid of Peer Review?

Open AccessOctober 9, 2013

John Bohannon reports on a spoof paper concocted by Science which had little or no scrutiny at many open access journals. Read the worrying but entertaining story here. It appears in Science 4 October 2013: Vol. 342 no. 6154 pp. 60-65

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