
The Pakistan Journal of Zoology got hoodwinked by a tall fishing tale. And they’re letting everyone know.
[Looking for Forensics Friday? They’ll resume as soon as we get through a backlog of posts we didn’t publish during our 10-day outage.]
The journal has retracted six papers that share a co-author who the editors say “exploited the peer-review process in the Journal of Zoology by generating fake reviewers[sic] email addresses.”
Some version of the fake peer review ruse has, as Retraction Watch readers may recall, been responsible for at least 700 retractions since 2012.
Here’s the notice, which isn’t playing catch-and-release:
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