Germany's Springer Publishing Company has retracted 64 academic papers in 10 journals, mostly of Chinese authorship. This move comes after British BioMed Center, which is owned by Springer, revoked 43 papers mostly written by Chinese scholars back in April.
The company's junior editors first discovered authenticity problems with emails addresses of so-called peer reviewers given with published papers. In the peer review system, authors often suggest their own reviewers.
The names of the experts given were real, but the email addresses attached were fake. Springer launched an internal investigation and found 64 published papers had forged peer reviewers.
Springer did not say which countries the 64 authors were from, but Xinhua reported by cross-referencing the company's website they found that most of the authors were from China.
Springer Executive Vice President William Curtis told Xinhua that the number only represents 0.05% of papers submitted from Chinese authors last year. “The papers that were revoked do not represent the overall level of Chinese research. Chinese researchers have had many academic breakthroughs in papers in their respective fields.”
Source: inews.qq.com
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these are just the ones that were found out. many other Chinese articles are probably shady - Chinese scientists have a publication quota to meet, and no duty towards scientific integrity.
Aug 23, 2015 16:05 Report Abuse
This is not just a Chinese problem. Academia in pretty much every country is publish or perish.
Aug 24, 2015 16:55 Report Abuse
i don't see authors in other countries massively plagiarizing other works and offering fake peer review e-mail addresses of credited authors. Only China has such low self-steem, that it lets its scientists steal other's work and trick the process, rather than doing the research and giving publication an honest try.
Aug 25, 2015 18:16 Report Abuse
Maybe not as many plagiarize other works and offer fake peer review email addresses, but a staggering number falsify data to get the results they want. My guess is about half of all published studies are not reproducible.
Aug 26, 2015 08:14 Report Abuse
that may be true. there is a lot of demand from businesses for bogus studies to lend weight to their claims. a new breed of mercenary scientists fill the demand. there may also be those who feel pressure to publish, but any good scientist can publish successfully even without interesting results. not all publications need to be sensational.
Aug 27, 2015 00:40 Report Abuse
This again? The academic integrity of this country in rotten to the core.
Aug 20, 2015 21:49 Report Abuse
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