RetractionWatch and others (Elisabeth Bik and a small group of science sleuths) are doing the work that institutions (Elsevier, but also national science orgs and schools) routinely fail to do. What a sad state of affairs.
yummypaint 30 days ago [-]
This is the problem with monopolistic for-profit publishers. They have little incentive to fulfill their structural role once they don't need to compete for subscriptions. Researchers are still the heart of peer review but our time and funding are squeezed and parasitized from every direction. Billion dollar publishers who contribute almost nothing to the scientific process are carried on the backs of researchers making $60k/year or less who could be making double in industry.
Much progress has been made in spite of elsevier. If the money they effectively take away from science were instead put into grants to fund more of this kind of detective work everything would be better.
mcphage 30 days ago [-]
> If the money they effectively take away from science were instead put into grants
Whelp.
sevensor 31 days ago [-]
Current grad students sometimes ask why I never publish. Mostly laziness, to be sure. But also, if I’m going to spend months polishing up a paper, why on earth would I subject it to the academic publishing fiasco when I’m not an academic?
tommiegannert 31 days ago [-]
The comment section is funny. The first 3-4 comments complain about the screenshot showing a column break, failing to notice it's from the suspected 1959 origin paper.
I can't tell what the publishing time was, but the first two comments are within eight minutes of each other. The third is an hour later. Sensible comments didn't start to trickle in until six hours later.
How many of those comments are from bots, and maybe human trolls?
ConspiracyFact 31 days ago [-]
>The publisher told us it was “content” with the wording.
They're content. They're just chillin'. Just veggin'.
Much progress has been made in spite of elsevier. If the money they effectively take away from science were instead put into grants to fund more of this kind of detective work everything would be better.
Whelp.
I can't tell what the publishing time was, but the first two comments are within eight minutes of each other. The third is an hour later. Sensible comments didn't start to trickle in until six hours later.
How many of those comments are from bots, and maybe human trolls?
They're content. They're just chillin'. Just veggin'.