Peer Review Ring Broken - 60 Articles Retracted

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reports that the Journal of Vibration and Control's review system was hijacked by a ring of reviewers. 60 articles have been retracted as a result.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?

[KibibyteBrain]

Peter holds a very high standard for himself, I'm sure.

I remember Journal of Vibration and Control!

[RevWaldo]

That was one high class bondage mag, right up there with Bizzare and Exotique.

I don't think "peer review" means what WaPo thinks it means...

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Re:The Good News?

[Cryacin]

It's just the new strategy employed to increase the speed of scientific research and development. It's called the self-peer-review.

Amazingly articles can get released on the same day as submission with this method.

Dildos and bondage!

[Anonymous Coward]

Yay!

Re:Wish I could say I was surprised

[Rockoon]

I was quoting someone else... please correct them instead... *yawn*

So you plagiarize too?