Author protests as Elsevier retracts nine papers for fake peer review
An agriculture researcher has lost nine papers from Elsevier journals for “illegitimate reviewer reports.” The researcher, Christos Damalas, is, well, irked. The journals included Chemosphere, Crop Protection, Land Use Policy, and Science of the Total Environment, and the papers were all published in 2017 and 2018, with Damalas as corresponding author and co-authors from Iran … Continue reading Author protests as Elsevier retracts nine papers for fake peer review