May 15, 2024 04:46 PM
(This post was last modified: May 15, 2024 04:46 PM by C C.)
We need fewer scientists and fewer science journals
https://www.acsh.org/news/2024/05/14/we-...nals-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)
RELATED (nature): The importance of distinguishing climate science from climate activism
Flood of fake science forces multiple journal closures
https://www.wsj.com/science/academic-stu..._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/...r-BB1mmDKS
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https://www.acsh.org/news/2024/05/14/we-...nals-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)
RELATED (nature): The importance of distinguishing climate science from climate activism
Flood of fake science forces multiple journal closures
https://www.wsj.com/science/academic-stu..._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/...r-BB1mmDKS
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