🗑️ 🧵 Scientific journals have a credibility problem.
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jun 2024 18:23:00 UTC No. 16261630
Scientific journals have a credibility problem.
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>What we see here is a crisis caused by bad incentives. Publishers charge anywhere from $1,000 to $12,000 for publishing a single open-access article. Every time the publisher rejects a submission, they lose potential revenue. This creates a strong economic incentive to lower the quality standards — a temptation that many publishers cannot resist.
An epidemic of scientific fakery
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>A record number of retractions — more than 10,000 scientific papers in 2023. Nineteen academic journals shut down recently after being overrun by fake research from paper mills. A single researcher with more than 200 retractions.
>The numbers don’t lie: Scientific publishing has a problem, and it’s getting worse. Vigilance against fraudulent or defective research has always been necessary, but in recent years the sheer amount of suspect material has threatened to overwhelm publishers.