Some science
journals that claim to peer review papers do not do so
Tallying scholarly publications to evaluate
their authors has been common since the invention of scientific journals in the
17th century. So, too, has the practice of journal editors asking independent,
usually anonymous, experts to scrutinize manuscripts and reject those deemed
flawed—a quality-control process now known as peer review. A rising number of journals that claim to
review submissions in this way do not bother to do so.
Bo-Christer Björk, an information scientist
at the Hanken School of Economics, in Helsinki, estimates that the number of
articles published in questionable journals has ballooned from about 53,000 a
year in 2010 to more than 400,000 today. He estimates that 6% of academic
papers by researchers in America appear in such journals.
Read the full article in The Economist.
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