Peer review ghost-writing, or do professors understand plagiarism?
Every academic will probably agree that plagiarism is wrong. It is absolutely not OK to pass someone’s else’s intellectual workContinue Reading
Category: Academic Publishing
Journal announces to clean up past literature, gets “smeared” by Retraction Watch
On June 9th 2017, the research integrity news website Retraction Watch brought an article titled: „Journal won’t look at allegationsContinue Reading
Carlisle’s statistics bombshell names and shames rigged clinical trials
John Carlisle is a British anaesthesiologist, who works in a seaside Torbay Hospital near Exeter, at the English Channel. DespiteContinue Reading
COPE, the publishers’ Trojan horse, calls to abolish retractions
Four private scientists without any agenda whatsoever published a research result preprint on the portal BioRxiv. The “new results” reportedContinue Reading
My Walles trachea transplant reporting fails peer review
My attempt recently to inform the readers of the journal Tissue Engineering Part A about grave omissions and factual inconsistenciesContinue Reading
Two EMBO corrections for the martyred saint Maria Pia Cosma
The martyrdom of St Maria Pia.
Kathrin Maedler: persecuted genius or zombie scientist?
The prize-winning German pharmacologist and diabetes researcher Kathrin Maedler is regularly in the German and international news, either as aContinue Reading
Beall-listed Frontiers empire strikes back
The Swiss publishing business Frontiers was placed by the US librarian Jeffrey Beall on his well-known and hotly disputed listContinue Reading
Frontiers reviewer told: don’t be strict, endorse paper, reports Giulia Liberati
Journal peer review is a mysterious black box all scientists fear. The task of the reviewers is to help authorsContinue Reading
The smelly compost heap of plant-based nanoparticles
A gang of Indian nanotechnology scientists, allegedly from Annamalai University in India, placed in 2014-2015 several papers in different journals,Continue Reading
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