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The Peer Review Scam: How authors are reviewing their own papers
« on: November 27, 2014, 12:47:13 PM »
Most journal editors know how much effort it takes to persuade busy researchers to review a paper. That is why the editor of The Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry was puzzled by the reviews for manuscripts by one author — Hyung-In Moon, a medicinal-plant researcher then at Dongguk University in Gyeongju, South Korea.

The reviews themselves were not remarkable: mostly favourable, with some suggestions about how to improve the papers. What was unusual was how quickly they were completed — often within 24 hours. The turnaround was a little too fast, and Claudiu Supuran, the journal's editor-in-chief, started to become suspicious.

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Re: The Peer Review Scam: How authors are reviewing their own papers
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2014, 01:25:01 PM »
If only people were smarter about how they cheated, they'd never get caught.
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Re: The Peer Review Scam: How authors are reviewing their own papers
« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2014, 01:41:17 PM »
@Corribus

In my experience, they are!
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Re: The Peer Review Scam: How authors are reviewing their own papers
« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2014, 02:45:33 PM »
I wonder how many of the papers were actually fairly good, but the author stooped so low as to use fake peer review scams just to make sure it got published. I wonder how many were garbage.

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