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Local "academic" Dr Olivia Doll — also known as Staffordshire terrier Ollie — sits on the editorial boards of seven international medical journals and has just been asked to review a research paper on the management of tumours.
Her impressive curriculum vitae lists her current role as senior lecturer at the Subiaco College of Veterinary Science and past associate of the Shenton Park Institute for Canine Refuge Studies — which is code for her earlier life in the dog refuge.
Ollie's owner, veteran public health expert Mike Daube, decided to test how carefully some journals scrutinised their editorial reviewers, by inventing Dr Doll and making up her credentials.
The five-year-old pooch has managed to dupe a range of publications specialising in drug abuse, psychiatry and respiratory medicine into appointing her to their editorial boards.
Dr Doll has even been fast-tracked to the position of associate editor of the Global Journal of Addiction and Rehabilitation Medicine.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 27 2017, @05:15PM (1 child)
I'm not at all familiar with the area, but unless the submitted work submitted looked like "bark bark woof" surely all we're seeing here is a very skilled owner succeeding under another name with false qualifications?
It looks, naïvely, as if the journals cared only about the quality of the work and didn't give a shit about the person producing it.
I guess they should probably check qualifications, but really if the work is sound does it matter?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 28 2017, @10:05AM
But it's a dog, I tell you. A DOG. Don't you know scientists are mocking us and siphoning off sweet, sweet grant money from hard working tax payers like the Koch brothers?