Engineered Peer Reviews Lead to 10 Retractions
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Engineered Peer Reviews Lead to 10 Retractions
What is this about?
SAGE retracted 10 papers published as part of two special collections in Advances in Mechanical Engineering. The publisher's decision resulted from the discovery that the peer review process did not meet the journal’s usual rigorous standards[1]. This is a factual case.
Why is this important?
Reviewers and guest editors can also commit research misconduct.
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- ↑ McCook, A. "A publisher just retracted ten papers whose peer review was ‘engineered’." Retraction Watch.(Downloaded on 26 September 2018 from https://retractionwatch. com/2018/07/page/3/) (2018).
