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Yesterday, Science Magazine scooped with a story on a sting with fake articles that passed peer review of 157 Open Access journals. In the article "Who's afraid of peer review?" John Bohannon, a contributing correspondent to Science, tells how he concocted a fake article and submitted that to hundreds of Open Access journals. His fake...
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The so-called "sting" by Science on Open Access journals has brought a lot of criticism, some of this is here, and here. For me the best has been Micheal Eisen's post, which uses satire to show that Science was well wide of the mark. As the discussion dies down on the subject, I have had...
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or the day after the sting I got the embargoed copy of Science Magazine article on peer review in Open Access earlier this week, which gave me a chance to read it with tranquility. I have to say I really liked it. It was a cool sting, and it exposed many of the flaws in...
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This is a guest post by Eric Price.
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