Academics are under a lot of pressure to publish. But, as we've seen, sometimes this pressure causes some to try to ensure that their article will be published in the right journal. The latest episode of this is the retraction of 64 articles by one of the world’s largest academic publishers, Springer, because the peer reviews related to these articles were linked to fake e-mail addresses. Fake peer reviews have generated the founding of a number of services selling names and contact information for made-up experts guaranteed to give an expedited, positive review.
There's something wrong in academia.
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