Who's Afraid of Peer Review?
SciencePublished 3 October 2013
John Bohannon
Citations930
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score10.42
SNIP6.62
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Dozens of open- access journals targeted in an elaborate Science sting accepted a spoof research article, raising questions about peer-review practices in much of the open-access world.
Abstract
A spoof paper concocted by Science reveals little or no scrutiny at many open-access journals.
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Decision Sciences