The academic publishing industry is grappling with a surge in fake studies, leading to significant financial losses and the closure of multiple journals. Wiley, a prominent science publisher, has been particularly affected, retracting over 11,300 papers in the past two years and planning to shutter 19 journals due to rampant fraud. This crisis highlights systemic issues within the incentive structures of science journals and academia, which are not aligned with truth-seeking. The frequency of research misconduct, data fabrication, and other unethical practices is alarming and appears to be on the rise. The Wall Street Journal, with reporting by Nidhi Subs, notes that publishers are losing millions of dollars.
Fake studies have flooded publishers of top scientific journals,. leading to thousands of retractions and millions of dollars in lost revenue. https://t.co/8CEEsdovgp
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Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures - WSJ https://t.co/W06KYaOphC
Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures Wiley to shutter 19 more journals, some tainted by fraud @NidhiSubs writes @WSJ https://t.co/1S0KDuqsst
Fake studies have flooded publishers of scientific journals resulting in retractions and millions of dollars in lost revenue; Wiley plans to shutter 19 journals (@nidhisubs / Wall Street Journal) https://t.co/RHT1c2Yxvr https://t.co/PQcfYYbq2j
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Journals that are unable to tell fake science from regular science are closing down. Nature is healing https://t.co/f4C5xRsGNi
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"Retractions of papers by authors...[at institutions in Europe]...are increasing and are primarily due to research misconduct." https://t.co/HfJS0Wfsxa https://t.co/G9HrFQsxcD
From fake conferences to paper mills, inappropriate self citations to image issues, weak statistics, duplicate publications, replication crises and inappropriate authorship, academia and its partners are awash with unethical and often fraudulent activity https://t.co/kbsqRsaawp
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. https://t.co/fC3d9UGAVp
The @WSJ reports on science publisher @WileyGlobal shuddering 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. https://t.co/8FkrVBxciq
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Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures https://t.co/G3ek8Ww8yg
"In the past two years, Wiley has retracted more than 11,300 papers that appeared compromised" https://t.co/TkGNSeUDVP
Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures - The Wall Street Journal https://t.co/lOqoQGQvKr
Fake academic studies are turning the publishing industry on its head—forcing publishers to issue retractions and close journals. They are losing millions of dollars. @NidhiSubs reports for #WSJScience https://t.co/Ieh2AXkDkk via @WSJ
Fake academic studies are turning the publishing industry on its head—forcing publishers to issue retractions and close journals. They are losing millions of dollars. https://t.co/Ad6OHVeyUh https://t.co/Ad6OHVeyUh
"the frequency of research misconduct, data fabrication, reproducibility crisis, paper mills, predatory journals, citation manipulations, peer-review biases, and paper retractions are alarming and appear to be rising" https://t.co/G9hfx5q0Dx
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