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I didn't say adversarial review. I said publishing papers from authors who explicitly disclaim that they do not have access to their own data any more. Because
by manfredo 6y ago
I didn't say adversarial review. I said publishing papers from authors who explicitly disclaim that they do not have access to their own data any more. Because that's what this publication did. They asked for the data, the hoaxsters claimed that they lost the data, and the journal published the paper anyway.
If what you say is true, that reviewers don't bother reviewing the actual data, then mistakes like missing a decimal point and reporting figures an order of magnitude off would not be caught. That would be astounding, but fortunately most of my coworkers who have experience in academia do not corroborate your claim that reviewers don't bother to look at the data used to produce the paper.
- haffenloher 6y agoI work in academia in a STEM field. I've never seen or heard of a reviewer asking for access to the raw data used to produce a paper. Reviewers typically operate under the assumption that you're not trying to deliberately mislead them about how you collected and evaluated your data (and I think they have to, at least with how the system currently works). What often happens is that, although the time they get to spend on a single paper is limited, reviewers still come up with important criticisms that end up leading to substantial changes (sometimes multiple rounds of them) or even an outright rejection.