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Peer Review Ring Broken - 60 Articles Retracted

Posted by samzenpus on from the I-scratch-your-back-you-publish-my-paper dept.

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that the Journal of Vibration and Control's review system was hijacked by a ring of reviewers. 60 articles have been retracted as a result.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

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  1. The Good News? by KibibyteBrain · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    1. Re:The Good News? by Cryacin · · Score: 3, Funny

      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.

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      Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
  2. I remember Journal of Vibration and Control! by RevWaldo · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  3. Dildos and bondage! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yay!

  4. Re:Wish I could say I was surprised by Rockoon · · Score: 3, Funny

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

    So you plagiarize too?

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    "His name was James Damore."