Happy Peer Review Week! [ TLDR: To make my latest tumble down a deep rabbit hole marginally less bumpy, I downloaded >200K peer review documents for >30K articles in four open access journals published by BMC (an imprint of Springer Nature). You can find links to download these archives in full here or at the bottom of this post.
Today, our article “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly” was published in PNAS . The article will only be fully open-access in six months (damn you, publishing fees), but I’ve made the PDF available here (you can download the supplementary materials on the PNAS page). I’ll use this blog post to summarize and opine (what I write here reflects my own thinking about this study
A review of a recent anti-vaccine preprint
A comprehensive starting point for performing post-publication peer review.
Detailing yet another citation manipulation scheme in Google Scholar
There is a new market for academic fraud: selling fake patents.
How far can the same data be stretched?
An excerpt from my newly-defended PhD dissertation.
A citation manipulation scheme so easy, even a cat can do it.
Collecting arguments on the stigma surrounding retraction
What an minor Wikipedia incident can teach us about the role of authority in the creation of truth