"Fixing Peer Review: The Key to Better Science Publishing"

TL;DR
This week's Retraction Watch highlights include issues with hijacked journals, allegations of research misconduct, and the ongoing challenges in peer review and data integrity. Notable stories cover the surprising history of abstracts, the broken state of peer review, and controversies in bee waggle dance data. The Retraction Watch Database now includes over 49,000 retractions and tools like the Hijacked Journal Checker to combat fraudulent publications.
Topics:sciencescience-and-research-integrity#data-integrity#peer-review#research-misconduct#retractions#science-and-research-integrity#scientific-publishing
- Weekend reads: ‘The surprising history of abstracts’; is peer review broken?; bee waggle dance data gets the wrong kind of buzz Retraction Watch
- Peer review is essential for science. Unfortunately, it’s broken. Ars Technica
- Designer Science – Why big brand journals harm research LSE Home
- How The Perverse Incentives of Academic Publishing Are Hurting Science ZME Science
- We need to put Open Access journals at the heart of academic publishing LSE Home
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