Karimipour Saga I: Setting Boundaries
“The business of selling authorships and citations needs a steady supply of paper-shaped vehicles. It is most efficient to produce these in assembly lines that focus on a narrow topic.” – Maarten van Kampen
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“The business of selling authorships and citations needs a steady supply of paper-shaped vehicles. It is most efficient to produce these in assembly lines that focus on a narrow topic.” – Maarten van Kampen
“Among these candidates that you “vetted” were people with no expertise in the field (either 0 or 1 publication), people with longer PubPeer profiles and more retractions than most people have articles on their CVs, and people whose names appear as authors on sold paper sites. ” – Jillian Goldfarb
“Or The author can also put your name to the article to increase your academic popularity, such as adding your name to the second or third author.”
Maarten van Kampen dispels the superconductive illusions of Ranga Dias and Ashkan Salamat. Will we also receive a cease-and-desist letter now?
Schneider Shorts 26.08.2022 – why an entire special issue got retracted, why Science editor won’t retract papers for fraud alone, with other amazing heroes of research integrity, a Swedish rector’s vanity, lab-grown meat and fish, Frontiers being silly again, and finally, a GoFundMe for a certain whiskey lover.
Who needs science if you can have a 75 paper strong special edition by Afrand and Karimi? A guest post by Alexander Magazinov.
“We have initiated post-acceptance peer review with independent reviewers… ” – Wiley.
Smut Clyde chases the ubiquitous multifaced Chen twins.
How a student’s suicide finally brought down an abusive narcissistic psychopath, after two decades.