Peer Review: bad science (Introduction)

by David Turell @, Tuesday, February 25, 2014, 15:18 (3712 days ago) @ George Jelliss

George: Publishers withdraw 120 gibberish papers!
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> http://www.nature.com/news/publishers-withdraw-more-than-120-gibberish-papers-1.14763&a... 
> 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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