{"id":46422,"date":"2018-12-27T10:57:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T18:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world.edu\/?p=46422"},"modified":"2018-12-27T10:57:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T18:57:01","slug":"electronics-journal-secretly-retracts-29-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/electronics-journal-secretly-retracts-29-articles\/","title":{"rendered":"Electronics journal secretly retracts 29 articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our \u201cpeer review\u201d system of publishing research is clearly highly flawed. In less objective fields like psychology, past half of such published research has been shown to be not reproducible. Some of this research has been foundational to psychology, such as the famous Stanford Prison Experiment<\/a>\u2026despite the fame, it\u2019s a fraud.<\/p>\n

In medicine, we also have this problem, and even wide swaths of cancer research are probably fraudulent<\/a>. Of course, I have a front row seat to how unpredictable cancer can be.<\/p>\n

Even hard sciences are obviously vulnerable, as shocking as that sounds. Today I\u2019m looking at events at an electronics journal\u2026surely peer review could check whether the research claims are valid? Perhaps not, but there\u2019s something even more interesting here:<\/p>\n

Journal Retracts 29 Articles, Explaining Little<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Violations of policies on peer review are cited, without saying what the violations were.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ok, clearly they found a serious peer review policy violation here. If I were to conjecture, I would suppose that the \u201cpeers\u201d reviewing the papers were a loaded bunch, possibly just one guy posing as a half dozen or more guys. That\u2019s just a guess, and it doesn\u2019t matter, the journal found violations and reacted appropriately.<\/p>\n

For now, the IEEE said that “three volunteer editors identified during the investigation as involved in the misconduct have been permanently excluded from IEEE membership.<\/em><\/p>\n

–IEEE is the organization which publishes the journal<\/em><\/p>\n

Being a journal editor, a legitimate one, is a thankless job. Often you hire \u201cassistant\u201d journal editors to help with the work, for no pay (I\u2019ve done this a few times). And so the game was fixed to get certain articles published with scant oversight. Fair enough.<\/p>\n

But wait, there\u2019s more:<\/p>\n

Inside Higher Ed asked IEEE a series of questions about which papers were retracted, which editors had been barred from working with the group, how they violated peer-review rules and whether the papers had flaws that had been identified or were being retracted solely because of problems with the peer-review process. IEEE declined to answer any of those questions.<\/em><\/p>\n

Seriously, they won\u2019t say which articles have been un-published due to fraud? Should a scientist then play it safe by disregarding all articles in this journal?<\/p>\n

This behavior raises many questions, questions unasked by the article I\u2019m quoting from. Chief among them? WHY are they protecting the fraudulent editors? If they did the decent thing and revealed which articles are unpublished, it wouldn\u2019t take much to backtrack to figure out who the associated editors are.<\/p>\n

Instead, we have a mysterious 29 unpublished papers\u2026already published in physical documents. Can\u2019t tell you what they are, or course.<\/p>\n

This, ultimately, brings up the real problem in our journal and peer review process: lack of integrity. There is simply no way a journal with integrity would protect fraudsters, quite possibly allowing them to commit the same fraud at a different journal. These people committed a crime against hard science, and the journal will cover for them. Yeah, \u201cwhy\u201d is a fair question to ask, shame I\u2019m alone in being curious why they\u2019d do that.<\/p>\n

www.professorconfess.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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