Weekend reads: Harm reduction for peer review; finding reviewers; fake journals

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 50,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 250 titles. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers? What about The Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List — or our list of nearly 100 papers with evidence they were written by ChatGPT?

Here’s what was happening elsewhere (some of these items may be paywalled, metered access, or require free registration to read):

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One thought on “Weekend reads: Harm reduction for peer review; finding reviewers; fake journals”

  1. There has been a lot of comment about the failures of Peer Review, usually based on the number of retractions. However, its a bit like detecting aircraft vulnerability by counting the bullet holes on returning aircraft. The questions should be “how many papers are rejected following peer review” and “how many papers rejected by one journal after peer review pop up somewhere else? Some of the papers I reject are simply bad – poor statistics, no controls and no reference to previous work that contradicts the author(s). These papers are never considered, yet show peer review works.

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