Elisabeth Bik has done some amazing work catching these kinds of errors. I occasionally follow Retraction Watch which cites her efforts regularly, [0] about 500

Elisabeth Bik has done some amazing work catching these kinds of errors. I occasionally follow Retraction Watch which cites her efforts regularly, [0] about 500 times or so. However, as she points out, she doesn't get compensated for this work: > We need this to be a career that people can make money and use their talents in. [1] Journals, IMO, should adopt something like a Knuth reward check [2] as an actual system. They, after all, are the ones profiting the most from our present system of scientific publications. I'm not sure what's fair; maybe 100 USD for catching a major post-publication error? It's currently a system where most of the incentives operate in opposition to self-correction. [0] https://retractionwatch.com/ https://retractionwatch.com/ [1] https://retractionwatch.com/2019/05/07/meet-elisabeth-bik-who-finds-problematic-images-in-scientific-papers-for-free/ https://retractionwatch.com/2019/05/07/meet-elisabeth-bik-wh... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth_reward_check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth_reward_check