https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03035-y
"Hundreds of articles published in peer-reviewed journals are being retracted
after scammers exploited the processes for publishing special issues to get
poor-quality papers — sometimes consisting of complete gibberish — into
established journals. In some cases, fraudsters posed as scientists and offered
to guest-edit issues that they then filled with sham papers.
Elsevier is withdrawing 165 articles currently in press and plans to retract
300 more that have been published as part of 6 special issues in one of its
journals, and Springer Nature is retracting 62 articles published in a special
issue of one journal. The retractions come after the publishers each issued
expressions of concern earlier this year, covering hundreds of articles.
Science-integrity experts expect that more investigations will come in the
months ahead as other titles realize that they have been duped."
Via Dave Farber.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
