Peer Review Ring Broken - 60 Articles Retracted 178
blackbeak (1227080) writes The Washington Post reports that the Journal of Vibration and Control's review system was hijacked by a ring of reviewers. 60 articles have been retracted as a result. "After a 14-month investigation, JVC determined the ring involved “aliases” and fake e-mail addresses of reviewers — up to 130 of them — in an apparently successful effort to get friendly reviews of submissions and as many articles published as possible by Chen and his friends.'On at least one occasion, the author Peter Chen reviewed his own paper under one of the aliases he created,' according to the SAGE announcement."
The Good News? (Score:5, Funny)
I remember Journal of Vibration and Control! (Score:5, Funny)
I don't think "peer review" means what WaPo thinks it means...
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Re:The Good News? (Score:4, Funny)
Amazingly articles can get released on the same day as submission with this method.
Dildos and bondage! (Score:2, Funny)
Yay!
Re:Wish I could say I was surprised (Score:4, Funny)
I was quoting someone else... please correct them instead... *yawn*
So you plagiarize too?