Scientific Journal

Hoax reveals 'Wild West' of open-access science journalsToronto Star

Hoax reveals 'Wild West' of open-access science journals ... of a chemical found in lichen was submitted to hundreds of open-accessscientific journals.

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Toronto Star

Deeply flawed research into cancer wonder drug accepted by ...The Independent

Deeply flawed research apparently demonstrating the anti-cancer properties of a wonder drug extracted from lichen has been accepted forpublication by a ...

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The Independent

“Sting” catches research journals publishing reports without vettingWorld Science

A whopping 157 research journals accepted for publication a spoofed scientific report full of deliberate nonsense—and most did so with little or no vetting, ...

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'Sting Operation': The Stunning Percentage of Science Journals That ...TheBlaze.com

Science magazine wanted to figure out just how legitimate open-access, peer-reviewed journals are. So, it set out to dupe them with a completely fake study.

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TheBlaze.com

Paper Written As Science Hoax Published By 157 Science JournalsPersonal Liberty Digest

LOS ANGELES (UPI) — An error-ridden science paper submitted in an effort to expose unethical academic publishers was accepted by 157 open-access ...

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Go evidence or go home: some online journals will publish fake ...Barfblog (blog)

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away – Canada – we ran the national food safety info line. You can imagine rotary phones, but it was a tad more sophisticated ...

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Hundreds of open access journals accept fake science paperThe Guardian

Hundreds of open access journals, including those published by industry giants Sage, Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer, have accepted a fake scientificpaper in a ...

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The Guardian

Numerous Journals Accept Publication of Hoax ReportFrench Tribune

The journal Science had carried out a sting operation. It has been found that John Bohannon, contributing correspondent, shed light on a "Wild West" landscape ...

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French Tribune

Fake research paper accepted into hundreds of online journalsSalon

Its experiments are so hopelessly flawed that the results are meaningless,” Bohannon wrote in the (paywalled) journal Science. And yet, his informal sting ...

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Marlborough nabs another life science biz: Boston Biomedical Assoc.Boston Business Journal (blog)

Boston Biomedical Associates plans to move to Marlborough next April, the latest in a series of life science companies to set their sights on the city in Boston's ...

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