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Exclusive: Publisher retracts more than 450 papers from journal it acquired last year The journal’s editor in chief, Reza Langari of Texas A&M University in College Station, resigned on June 16 “due to differences of opinion on how to proceed” with Sage’s investigation, he told Retraction Watch. Ellie Kincaid reports

Exclusive: Publisher retracts more than 450 papers from journal it acquired last year

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Manikandan Murugaiah

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When this happens to the AST (Elsevier) Editor-in-Chief. This is the journal that rejects paper in 1 min the moment you apply. He cannot take any critics. If you give any negative feedback about him, then he will never accept the paper for review from your end. He will give stupid and lame feedback as a reason for the feedback. If that journal has to grow, he has to be thrown out of the position. From three four years, there is no improvement in the ranking of the journal.

Ivan C. Christov

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Tip of the iceberg.

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Babak Lotfaliei

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Chilling outcome! In a supplement to Volume 337 Issue 1 of Annals of Operations Research, 23 papers were retracted with the same statement for an entire special issue! https://lnkd.in/gCQjwbPD

‘We authors paid a heavy price’: Journal retracts all 23 articles in special issue

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According to the recent statistics "Elsevier" is recognized as the most profitable publisher in the world. Reference of the Claim: •Publishers Weekly. (2024, September 23). Academic publishers hit with antitrust suit over peer review. *Publishers Weekly*. https://lnkd.in/esxGEpNg. •Davis, P. (2022, September 7). The growth of article processing charges in academic publishing. *The Scholarly Kitchen*. https://lnkd.in/efrWuQz.
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Sudha Shastri

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https://lnkd.in/dUyryQhC While I do not know enough to comment on this particular incident, and my post is not related to these publishers, I think this is a context I can use to think some concerns aloud. Recently, a scholar's paper was reviewed by a journal, and two reviewers gave two exactly antithetical suggestions to revise and resubmit. So the scholar wrote back to ask which of the two suggestions he was to follow, as staying with one would mean that the other was off the mark - and this "mean" addresses a larger question than just getting accepted/rejected - and whether or not the editors saw a problem there. The editors could not address this fundamental contradiction. Apart from pointing to the subjective nature of reviews coming possibly from the subjective nature of certain disciplines, what does this say about "publish or perish", I wonder.

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MULTIPLE FAILURE TO DECLARE A RELEVANT CONFLICT OF INTEREST Case During peer review of a manuscript submitted to journal Y, one of the referees indicated a belief that at least one of the authors had not declared a relevant conflict of interest (CoI). The article indicated that the authors had no relevant CoIs. The referee provided a URL to a press release that supported the allegation. It appears that one of the authors is the discoverer of a series of compounds that are the subject of the article. The compounds have been licensed to a company. The authors were asked to clarify the situation and have provided a revised declaration that acknowledges the CoI. Journal Y also published another article by this group on the same subject that contained a declaration indicating no relevant CoI. Journal Y is in the process of indicating to the authors that a correction to the published article with the correct CoI declaration will be necessary. Journal Y is also aware that another article by this group was published in journal Z six months earlier and did not reveal the CoI. Journal Z has a stated policy on declaring CoIs that we strongly suspect was in place when this article was submitted. Journal Y is intending to contact Journal Z to inform them. COPE advice It is the editor’s role to police all journals? Maybe you shouldn't look for other affected articles sought out and other affected journals be alerted. Editors should spend their time editing not policing. However, institution should be informed, asking it to investigate, but warned about making any allegations. The seriousness of omission of a CoI was compounded by its repetition but only if it had been done knowingly and if the omission occurred after it had been made clear to the author that this was not good behaviour. Source https://lnkd.in/dP8xWhfa #article #journal #author #research #conflict_of_interests #declaration #COPE

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Lúcia da Silveira

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it's pretty unbelievable... Publishing two articles per day, and being indexed by Scopus no less, is an enormous amount of work. I'm curious, too, about the quality of these articles. There are some potential red flags: for example, are these researchers collaborating extensively with others to help spread out the work? Or are they using automatic writing software? It would be hard to believe that a single person could produce that much high-quality research all on their own. Of course, it's possible that these researchers are simply incredibly hard-working, but it seems unlikely. #openscience #artificialinteligence
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22 people have published more than 200 papers in 2024 (so far, we still have another six months to go) We (Publishing with Integrity) have been doing some research on another project and saw something that we found interesting. We'd be interested to know what you think. In 2024, 22 authors (according to @Scopus ) have published over 200 papers. The table below shows the details (we decided not to show author names at this time). The author who has published the most papers has authored 261 papers (as at 15 Jun 2024) meaning that he/she has published 1.56 papers every day this year (and counting). If we (Publishing with Integrity) exclude weekends (everybody has to rest, right?), then they have published 2.18 papers every day. Serious question: Is it possible for anybody to contribute in a meaningful way (at least to warrant being at author) when they are publishing a paper every day? Source: Publishing with Integrity Twitter account @fake_journals, Original Tweet: https://lnkd.in/d_czxF-T
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Raymond Wightman

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I feel productive with 1.5 papers per year. The figures below are mental…
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22 people have published more than 200 papers in 2024 (so far, we still have another six months to go) We (Publishing with Integrity) have been doing some research on another project and saw something that we found interesting. We'd be interested to know what you think. In 2024, 22 authors (according to @Scopus ) have published over 200 papers. The table below shows the details (we decided not to show author names at this time). The author who has published the most papers has authored 261 papers (as at 15 Jun 2024) meaning that he/she has published 1.56 papers every day this year (and counting). If we (Publishing with Integrity) exclude weekends (everybody has to rest, right?), then they have published 2.18 papers every day. Serious question: Is it possible for anybody to contribute in a meaningful way (at least to warrant being at author) when they are publishing a paper every day? Source: Publishing with Integrity Twitter account @fake_journals, Original Tweet: https://lnkd.in/d_czxF-T
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Alexandre Zagoskin

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One more illustration of the pointlessness of metrics in science.
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22 people have published more than 200 papers in 2024 (so far, we still have another six months to go) We (Publishing with Integrity) have been doing some research on another project and saw something that we found interesting. We'd be interested to know what you think. In 2024, 22 authors (according to @Scopus ) have published over 200 papers. The table below shows the details (we decided not to show author names at this time). The author who has published the most papers has authored 261 papers (as at 15 Jun 2024) meaning that he/she has published 1.56 papers every day this year (and counting). If we (Publishing with Integrity) exclude weekends (everybody has to rest, right?), then they have published 2.18 papers every day. Serious question: Is it possible for anybody to contribute in a meaningful way (at least to warrant being at author) when they are publishing a paper every day? Source: Publishing with Integrity Twitter account @fake_journals, Original Tweet: https://lnkd.in/d_czxF-T
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Rémy Bossu

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Looking at these statistics, it seems that 1.8 articles per working day is a realistic target 🙃 More seriously I would be interested to know whether all the scientific fields are affected ! I suspect that chatgpt is the co author of all these papers
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22 people have published more than 200 papers in 2024 (so far, we still have another six months to go) We (Publishing with Integrity) have been doing some research on another project and saw something that we found interesting. We'd be interested to know what you think. In 2024, 22 authors (according to @Scopus ) have published over 200 papers. The table below shows the details (we decided not to show author names at this time). The author who has published the most papers has authored 261 papers (as at 15 Jun 2024) meaning that he/she has published 1.56 papers every day this year (and counting). If we (Publishing with Integrity) exclude weekends (everybody has to rest, right?), then they have published 2.18 papers every day. Serious question: Is it possible for anybody to contribute in a meaningful way (at least to warrant being at author) when they are publishing a paper every day? Source: Publishing with Integrity Twitter account @fake_journals, Original Tweet: https://lnkd.in/d_czxF-T
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Alae Eddine El Hmimdi

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On the consequences of evaluating a researcher's career based on the number of published papers, without considering the quality of the papers content...
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22 people have published more than 200 papers in 2024 (so far, we still have another six months to go) We (Publishing with Integrity) have been doing some research on another project and saw something that we found interesting. We'd be interested to know what you think. In 2024, 22 authors (according to @Scopus ) have published over 200 papers. The table below shows the details (we decided not to show author names at this time). The author who has published the most papers has authored 261 papers (as at 15 Jun 2024) meaning that he/she has published 1.56 papers every day this year (and counting). If we (Publishing with Integrity) exclude weekends (everybody has to rest, right?), then they have published 2.18 papers every day. Serious question: Is it possible for anybody to contribute in a meaningful way (at least to warrant being at author) when they are publishing a paper every day? Source: Publishing with Integrity Twitter account @fake_journals, Original Tweet: https://lnkd.in/d_czxF-T
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Abdelmalek ATIA

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very useful post
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22 people have published more than 200 papers in 2024 (so far, we still have another six months to go) We (Publishing with Integrity) have been doing some research on another project and saw something that we found interesting. We'd be interested to know what you think. In 2024, 22 authors (according to @Scopus ) have published over 200 papers. The table below shows the details (we decided not to show author names at this time). The author who has published the most papers has authored 261 papers (as at 15 Jun 2024) meaning that he/she has published 1.56 papers every day this year (and counting). If we (Publishing with Integrity) exclude weekends (everybody has to rest, right?), then they have published 2.18 papers every day. Serious question: Is it possible for anybody to contribute in a meaningful way (at least to warrant being at author) when they are publishing a paper every day? Source: Publishing with Integrity Twitter account @fake_journals, Original Tweet: https://lnkd.in/d_czxF-T
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