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Microprocessors and Microsystems: Elsevier says 400 papers compromised
- Ice_cream_suit 5y agoAlso : "Some of the mangled phrases the authors identified include: Profound neural organization for deep neural network Motor vitality for kinetic energy Motion to clamor for signal to noise Discourse acknowledgement for voice recognition And our favorite: Subterranean insect province (or area, state, region or settlement — your choice) for ant colony Cabanac told Retraction Watch: We noticed a huge number of questionable papers in the volumes and queue of the journal (we first encountered a sensible number – ca. 30 – papers with “tortured phrases”, then, upon a closer look, realized that the problem is even bigger). He says that the journal has been silent in response to the concerns: I’m afraid we got no reply to date, not even a ‘mail received’ acknowledgement" https://retractionwatch.com/2021/07/19/tortured-phrases-lost-in-translation-sleuths-find-even-more-problems-at-journal-that-just-flagged-400-pap https://retractionwatch.com/2021/07/19/tortured-phrases-lost...
- throwawaysea 5y agoThe details here are light and opaque - was this due to a technical error with their approval workflow, rogue editors, or just poor reviewers? Either way this seems like a good time to bring up a past HN discussion, “Why we shouldn’t take peer review as the ‘gold standard’” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20607259 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20607259
- greenyoda 5y agoA somewhat related article from earlier today: Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27884233 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27884233 Apparently, a lot of outright fraud gets through the peer review process, and only a small fraction of fraudulent papers get retracted after they're discovered.