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We need fewer scientists & fewer journals + Flood of fake science spurs closures - C C - May 15, 2024
We need fewer scientists and fewer science journals
https://www.acsh.org/news/2024/05/14/we-need-fewer-scientists-and-fewer-science-journals-17851
INTRO: Academic journals and the researchers who publish in them are increasingly engaged in naked political advocacy rather than science. It's time we cut off public funding to peer-reviewed publications and reduce the number of academic scientists chasing after grant money... (MORE - details)
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Flood of fake science forces multiple journal closures
https://www.wsj.com/science/academic-studies-research-paper-mills-journals-publishing-f5a3d4bc?st=t8lprsn8ly2lr3b&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
INTRO: Fake studies have flooded the publishers of top scientific journals, leading to thousands of retractions and millions of dollars in lost revenue. The biggest hit has come to Wiley, a 217-year-old publisher based in Hoboken, N.J., which Tuesday will announce that it is closing 19 journals, some of which were infected by large-scale research fraud.
In the past two years, Wiley has retracted more than 11,300 papers that appeared compromised, according to a spokesperson, and closed four journals. It isn’t alone: At least two other publishers have retracted hundreds of suspect papers each. Several others have pulled smaller clusters of bad papers.
Although this large-scale fraud represents a small percentage of submissions to journals, it threatens the legitimacy of the nearly $30 billion academic publishing industry and the credibility of science as a whole... (MORE - details)
If the WSJ permalink fails, here's the same article distributed at ad-intensive MSN:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/flood-of-fake-science-forces-multiple-journal-closures/ar-BB1mmDKS
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