Engineered Peer Reviews Lead to 10 Retractions

What is this about?

This case which was made public by Retraction Watch is about a publisher, SAGE, who retracted 10 papers published as part of two special collections in Advances in Mechanical Engineering after discovering the peer review process that had been managed by the guest editors did not meet the journal’s usual rigorous standards^[1]. This is a factual case.

↑ 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).

Why is this important?

It is important to keep in mind that reviewers can also commit scientific fraud.

For whom is this important?

Researchers

Other information

Who

When

12-7-2018

Virtues & Values

Good Practices & Misconduct

Research Area

Mechanical engineering

[1] 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).

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