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Researcher uses fake email address to submit a paper mill manuscript without corresponding author’s knowledge
A Springer Nature journal has retracted a paper sourced from a paper mill – not an uncommon occurrence nowadays. What adds a bit of intrigue is that the manuscript was submitted with a fake email address to keep the alleged corresponding author from knowing about it. The paper, “Electrophysiological Follow-Up of Patients with Chronic Peripheral … Continue reading Researcher uses fake email address to submit a paper mill manuscript without corresponding author’s knowledge
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inSpringer Nature slaps more than 400 papers with expressions of concern all at once
A total of 436 papers in two Springer Nature journals are being subjected to expressions of concern, in the latest case of special issues — in this case, “topical collections” — likely being exploited by rogue editors or impersonators. The move follows the discovery, as we reported in August, of more than 70 papers in … Continue reading Springer Nature slaps more than 400 papers with expressions of concern all at once
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inGuest editor says journal will retract dozens of inappropriate papers after his email was hacked
What do aerobics and dance training have to do with geology? If that sounds like an odd question, take a look at more than 70 articles in a special collection of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences, published by Springer Nature, with titles such as: BP neural network–based detection of soil and water structure in mountainous … Continue reading Guest editor says journal will retract dozens of inappropriate papers after his email was hacked
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in‘Galling’: Journal scammed by guest editor impersonator
It just keeps happening. For at least the fourth time in two years, a journal has been scammed by someone impersonating a guest editor. The latest: Behaviour & Information Technology, a Taylor & Francis title, has retracted an entire special issue — at least 10 articles — published between 2019 and 2020 — because the … Continue reading ‘Galling’: Journal scammed by guest editor impersonator
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inYears after faked peer review concerns surfaced, journals are still falling for it
A group of authors has lost a pair of papers in a computing journal for monkeying with the peer review process. The first author on both articles was Mohamed Abdel-Basset of the Department of Operations Research in the Faculty of Computers and Informatics at Zagazig University, in Sharqiya. Mai Mohamad, also of Zagazig, is the … Continue reading Years after faked peer review concerns surfaced, journals are still falling for it
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inMeet the medical resident who had his wife peer review five of his papers
The pantheon of husband-wife teams in science includes Marie and Pierre Curie, Gerty and Carl Cori, even Ugur Sahin and Özlem Türeci, the founders of BioNTech, which collaborated with Pfizer on a Covid-19 vaccine. To that list we hesitatingly add Ahmed Elkhouly and his spouse. Elkhouly, a medical resident at St. Francis Medical Center, in … Continue reading Meet the medical resident who had his wife peer review five of his papers
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inThird journal scammed by rogue editors
Burned by the offer of a special issue, a journal has retracted four papers after determining that the guest editors of the supplement were not legit. Neuroscience Letters, an Elsevier title, published the special issue — “Special Issue on Clinical and Imaging Assessment of Cognitive Dysfunction in Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders” — last summer, but … Continue reading Third journal scammed by rogue editors
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inJournal becomes “victim of an organized rogue editor network”
We’re not accustomed to seeing journal article titles that end in exclamation points. But that’s what a title did earlier this month: “The Journal of Nanoparticle Research victim of an organized rogue editor network!” The journal, a Springer Nature title, wrote the editors, “has been attacked in a new way by a sophisticated and organized … Continue reading Journal becomes “victim of an organized rogue editor network”
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inJournal that published paper linking 5G to COVID-19 blames “substantial manipulation of the peer review”
The journal that allowed a bizarre article linking Covid-19 to 5G cell phone waves to “slip through the net” now blames rigged peer review for the fishy paper. The article, which earned raspberries from the likes of Elisabeth Bik (who called it potentially the “worst” paper of the year) and others, was retracted shortly after … Continue reading Journal that published paper linking 5G to COVID-19 blames “substantial manipulation of the peer review”
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inJournal retracted 46 articles in one fell swoop for faked peer review
In Retraction Watch world, it’s like finding long-buried and forgotten treasure. A now-defunct journal retracted nearly four dozen papers in a single sweep, citing questions about the integrity of the peer review process for the articles. The Open Automation and Control Systems Journal, formerly published by Bentham, released a list of 46 articles, which it … Continue reading Journal retracted 46 articles in one fell swoop for faked peer review
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