🧵 SOYSCIENCE ARE YOU OKAY????
Anonymous at Wed, 15 May 2024 16:16:12 UTC No. 16177146
Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures
Wiley to shutter 19 more journals, some tainted by fraud
Fake studies have flooded the publishers of top scientific journals, leading to thousands of retractions and millions of dollars in lost revenue. The biggest hit has come to Wiley, a 217-year-old publisher based in Hoboken, N.J., which Tuesday announced that it was closing 19 journals, some of which were infected by large-scale research fraud. In the past two years, Wiley has retracted more than 11,300 papers that appeared compromised, according to a spokesperson, and closed four journals. It isn't alone: At least two other publishers have retracted hundreds of suspect papers each. Several others have pulled smaller clusters of bad papers.
Although this large-scale fraud represents a small percentage of submissions to journals, it threatens the legitimacy of the nearly $30 billion academic publishing industry and the credibility of science as a whole. The discovery of nearly 900 fraudulent papers in 2022 at IOP Publishing, a physical sciences publisher, was a turning point for the nonprofit. "That really crystallized for us, everybody internally, everybody involved with the business," said Kim Eggleton, head of peer review and research integrity at the publisher. "This is a real threat." The sources of the fake science are "paper mills" -- businesses or individuals that, for a price, will list a scientist as an author of a wholly or partially fabricated paper. The mill then submits the work, generally avoiding the most prestigious journals in favor of publications such as one-off special editions that might not undergo as thorough a review and where they have a better chance of getting bogus work published.
Anonymous at Wed, 15 May 2024 16:17:05 UTC No. 16177147
https://archive.is/5k8nI
Anonymous at Wed, 15 May 2024 16:25:21 UTC No. 16177149
>>16177146
>$30 billion academic publishing industry
see this seems like the problem that caused all this
Anonymous at Wed, 15 May 2024 17:21:05 UTC No. 16177191
>>16177149
curious, how much of that makes it to the actual researchers?
Anonymous at Wed, 15 May 2024 17:39:10 UTC No. 16177208
>The journal Science flagged the practice of buying authorship in 2013. The website Retraction Watch and independent researchers have since tracked paper mills through their advertisements and websites. Researchers say they have found them in multiple countries including Russia, Iran, Latvia, China and India.
why is it always
Anonymous at Wed, 15 May 2024 18:22:25 UTC No. 16177243
>>16177191
0
Funding comes from government or sponsors.
The academic publishing industry is just one massive mafia holding researchers hostage of the system they created to profit from.
Anonymous at Wed, 15 May 2024 20:16:35 UTC No. 16177399
>>16177146
Have faith in the science.
Anonymous at Wed, 15 May 2024 20:35:39 UTC No. 16177431
>>16177243
their choice not to publish to arxiv
Anonymous at Thu, 16 May 2024 05:29:11 UTC No. 16177923
Anonymous at Thu, 16 May 2024 05:42:04 UTC No. 16177943
literally which journals now are considered paper mills? I know chinese and Indian students seem to have that shit as common knowledge, stepping out of undergrad with 10 ridiculously shitty, yet still published, papers on their CVs
Cult of Passion at Thu, 16 May 2024 05:49:15 UTC No. 16177956
>>16177923
Satan is found inside of every atom.
He is a crypto-Satanist.
Cult of Passion at Thu, 16 May 2024 05:57:52 UTC No. 16177965
>>16177943
>literally which journals now are considered paper mills?
I only subscribe to specific researchers/professors, not [[[Democratic Organizations]]].
And me. I review my papers a lot to find new research to do (citation list is all me, lmfao......)
NO, I PUBLISH *FIRST*...AND LAST (BECAUSE I DIDNT PUBLICLY PUBLISH IT THE FIRST TIME, I AM TOO HUMBLE A PERSON, LET TWO BLACK GIRLS TAKE CREDIT.)
Anonymous at Thu, 16 May 2024 21:22:47 UTC No. 16178934
>>16177146
>closing down whole journals because they were found to be mostly fraudulent
why are scientists all such massive liars?
Anonymous at Fri, 17 May 2024 00:52:58 UTC No. 16179154
>>16177943
any that you have to pay to publish in
Anonymous at Fri, 17 May 2024 09:21:43 UTC No. 16179578
>shit tier journal full of lies goes out of business
boo hoo
Anonymous at Sat, 18 May 2024 03:28:58 UTC No. 16180917
>>16179578
They should all go out of belly up, the whole journal system is a farce. Its existence allows non-scientist publishers to gatekeep science.
Anonymous at Sat, 18 May 2024 03:44:02 UTC No. 16180934
>>16177146
>make a billion dollar business out of publishing for the sake of publishing
>people start to play by those rules and focus on publishing instead of doing actual research
who would've thought
Anonymous at Sat, 18 May 2024 03:57:23 UTC No. 16180940
>>16177943
If you have to pay to publish in it - it's a scam.
Anonymous at Sat, 18 May 2024 20:27:55 UTC No. 16181931
>>16180940
The normal vanity press is at least honest about how and why they're publishing materials that are not commercially viable
Anonymous at Sun, 19 May 2024 17:17:11 UTC No. 16182977
>>16177146
This kind of thing happens constantly and yet ppl still insist that you "trust the science".
Anonymous at Sun, 19 May 2024 23:46:36 UTC No. 16183541
>>16180940
If you have to pay to publish then that means that what you're publishing is less than worthless. If you were publishing something worthwhile them you'd be able to get paid to publish it
Anonymous at Mon, 20 May 2024 20:05:00 UTC No. 16184995
>>16183541
people who pay to publish:
commercial advertisers
political campaigns
scientists
Anonymous at Tue, 21 May 2024 07:50:21 UTC No. 16185767
>>16184995
>political campaigns
>scientists
same thing, both are just greedy scammers looking to thieve tax funds and deliver nothing in return
Anonymous at Tue, 21 May 2024 23:51:19 UTC No. 16187003
>>16184995
>people who pay to publish
They do that because they presume that they will personally benefit from paying to publish. Advertising isn't a cost, its an investment.