Here’s another installment of PubPeer Selections:
- “We have contacted the journal editors and agreed an erratum which will be published shortly,” writes Austin Smith, last author of a Cell paper on stem cells.
- “These controls were not included in the manuscript as we felt that it would be too confusing for the readers…” writes the last author of a 2011 Genome Research paper.
- “Below was my review of a previous version of this paper.” PubPeer: The place for peer reviewers to post their reports?
- “The good thing about PubPeer is that we can all discuss the findings (with respect) trying to learn from each other,” says the author of a paper chosen for the Cancer Biology Reproducibility Project that was highlighted in a previous PubPeer Selections.
- “I have to agree that the evidence of problems is fairly slight in this case,” writes a commenter about criticisms of a 2015 paper in Oncotarget.
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Re: https://pubpeer.com/publications/650B16C4F5129DD9BDF2B6A592A731
Other papers commented on at Pubpeer:-
https://pubpeer.com/publications/11846484
https://pubpeer.com/publications/15327775
https://pubpeer.com/publications/14536082
https://pubpeer.com/publications/16137622
https://pubpeer.com/publications/10673503
https://pubpeer.com/publications/11296229
For more information on Oncotarget see:
The blog of Rédaction Médicale et Scientifique/Medical and Scientific Editing. – Danger, danger: predatory journals are well made and easy to trap naïve … I meet a lot of naive experts.
http://www.h2mw.eu/redactionmedicale/2015/05/cf-infra-proc%C3%A9dure-acc%C3%A9l%C3%A9r%C3%A9e-dacceptation-des-articles-rejet%C3%A9s-tr%C3%A8s-sinc%C3%A8rement-dr-alain-braillon-unit.html
There are also 2 recent comments about Oncotarget in PubPeer https://pubpeer.com/publications/AB03B75755E41CCD96D13C3E7D9DBC#fb32440
– Unregistered Submission: (June 24th, 2015 1:07pm UTC )
– Peer 3: (June 24th, 2015 5:56pm UTC )
In principle Publons is a good place for peer reviews; but publishers have not agreed with it in most terms. Thing is, you post in PubPeer, some editors may figure out who you are.