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Peer-Review Fraud (NEJM article)

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Peer-Review Fraud — Hacking the Scientific Publication Process

Charlotte J. Haug, M.D., Ph.D.

October 21, 2015

In August 2015, the publisher Springer retracted 64 articles from 10 different subscription journals “after editorial checks spotted fake email addresses, and subsequent internal investigations uncovered fabricated peer review reports,” according to a statement on their website.1 The retractions came only months after BioMed Central, an open-access publisher also owned by Springer, retracted 43 articles for the same reason.
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