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Sting exposes 'wild west' of open-access publishing

2013-10-03 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

SciDevNet: An investigation by the journal Science reports today the first global snapshot of the poor quality of peer review in open access journals, many of them based in developing countries, most notably India, calling it an "emerging Wild West in academic publishing". Science reporter John Bohannon submitted versions of the same flawed paper by made up scientists to 304 journals around the world between January and August. He found that "more than half of the journals accepted the paper, failing to notice...

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