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Darren Dahly
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Epidemiologist + Statistician | Clinical Research Facility - University College Cork | UCC School of Public Health | #ClinicalTrials #Epidemiology #Statistics #RStats
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Except it's not the referees gaming the system. It's the publishers. www.science.org/content/arti...
Suspicious phrases in peer reviews point to referees gaming the system
Hundreds of scientific papers bear signs of reviewers using templates to quickly churn out reports for personal gain
“The reviews… appeared almost exclusively in journals from MDPI”… But also… while reviewing is listed as service, I had the impression it was such a small part of promotion that it I didn’t realize it was worth trying to game anything…
Publishers are definitely asking too much of reviewers. But not much of that article shouted fraudulent reviews to me. If you keep seeing the same issues in manuscripts it makes sense to keep a list of frequent responses somewhere.
DD
Darren Dahly
@statsepi.bsky.social
Epidemiologist + Statistician | Clinical Research Facility - University College Cork | UCC School of Public Health | #ClinicalTrials #Epidemiology #Statistics #RStats
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