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General Forums => Generic Discussion => Topic started by: Mitch on November 27, 2014, 12:47:13 PM
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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.
Read the rest here: Publishing: The peer-review scam (http://www.nature.com/news/publishing-the-peer-review-scam-1.16400)
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If only people were smarter about how they cheated, they'd never get caught.
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@Corribus
In my experience, they are!
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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.