| Title | SAGE Retracts 60 Scientific Papers due to Fraud Concerns | |
| Date | Tuesday July 15 2014, @08:08PM | |
| Author | azrael | |
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| from the fake-your-way-to-tenure dept. | ||
This seems to be one of the biggest cases of scientific misconduct ever:
On July 8, scientific publisher SAGE announced that it was retracting a whopping 60 scientific papers connected to Taiwanese researcher Peter Chen, in what appears to be an elaborate work of fraud.
This case is one of what appears to be a recent spate of scientific malfeasance. So what's going on here? Is this just a uniquely bad run? Or does the recent spate of scientific misconduct point to a flaw in the peer-review process? Vox.com provides a rundown.
The Chen case is quite astounding. Publisher SAGE announced it was retracting 60 papers from 2010-2014 in the Journal of Vibration and Control, which covers acoustics, all connected to Peter Chen of National Pingtung University of Education, Taiwan.
Chen allegedly created up to 130 fake email accounts to create a 'peer review and citation ring'.
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