11,300 Papers... Retracted - Good Record

[AlleyCat]

The @WSJ reports on science publisher @WileyGlobal shuttering 19 journals for
rampant fraud. In the past 2 years, they've been forced to retract over 11,300
papers.

The incentive structure of science journals and academia is not aligned with
truth-seeking.

Fake studies have flooded the publishers of top scientific journals, leading to
thousands of retractions and millions of dollars in lost revenue. The biggest
hit has come to Wiley, a 217-year-old publisher based in Hoboken, N.J., which
Tuesday will announce that it is closing 19 journals, some of which were
infected by large-scale research fraud.

In the past two years, Wiley has retracted more than 11,300 papers that
appeared compromised, according to a spokesperson, and closed four journals.

It isn't alone: At least two other publishers have retracted hundreds of
suspect papers each. Several others have pulled smaller clusters of bad papers.

Although this large-scale fraud represents a small percentage of submissions to
journals, it threatens the legitimacy of the nearly $30 billion academic
publishing industry and the credibility of science as a whole.

The discovery of nearly 900 fraudulent papers in 2022 at IOP Publishing, a
physical sciences publisher, was a turning point for the nonprofit. "That
really crystallized for us, everybody internally, everybody involved with the
business," said Kim Eggleton, head of peer review and research integrity at the
publisher.

"This is a real threat."

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Post by AlleyCat
rampant fraud. In the past 2 years, they've been forced to retract over 11,300
papers.
The incentive structure of science journals and academia is not aligned with
truth-seeking.
Fake studies have flooded the publishers of top scientific journals, leading to
thousands of retractions and millions of dollars in lost revenue. The biggest
hit has come to Wiley, a 217-year-old publisher based in Hoboken, N.J., which
Tuesday will announce that it is closing 19 journals, some of which were
infected by large-scale research fraud.
In the past two years, Wiley has retracted more than 11,300 papers that
appeared compromised, according to a spokesperson, and closed four journals.
It isn't alone: At least two other publishers have retracted hundreds of
suspect papers each. Several others have pulled smaller clusters of bad papers.
Although this large-scale fraud represents a small percentage of submissions to
journals, it threatens the legitimacy of the nearly $30 billion academic
publishing industry and the credibility of science as a whole.
The discovery of nearly 900 fraudulent papers in 2022 at IOP Publishing, a
physical sciences publisher, was a turning point for the nonprofit. "That
really crystallized for us, everybody internally, everybody involved with the
business," said Kim Eggleton, head of peer review and research integrity at the
publisher.
"This is a real threat."

Indeed.
Science is being driven by greed and money.
Institutions (Universities) are funded for research projects and it's big money.
Professors and research scientists don't want to lose their grants which means they lose their
cushy jobs as well so numbers and data are fudged.

Follow the money.
It's ALWAYS about money and when it's not it's about power.