Peer Review: bad science (Introduction)

by David Turell, (4628 days ago) @ George Jelliss

George: Publishers withdraw 120 gibberish papers! > > http://www.nature.com/news/publishers-withdraw-more-than-120-gibberish-papers-1.14763 > > Labbé developed a way to automatically detect manuscripts composed by a piece of software called SCIgen, which randomly combines strings of words to produce fake computer-science papers.-Still more evidence of the publish or perish aspect of grantsmanship. When easy money is thrown at science to speed up research progress, fraud and garbage appear.

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