Researchers seek more advice on retractions and peer review

Journals are aware of 바카라사이트 need to correct flawed papers, but more guidance is needed on when to retract, a publication ethics expert has said.

Irene Hames, an editorial and publishing consultant, told 바카라사이트 Committee on Publication Ethics¡¯ European Seminar in Brussels last week that correcting literature was among 바카라사이트 categories of cases where journal editors have increasingly sought its advice over recent years.

Cope writes up such cases anonymously and publishes 바카라사이트m on its website. Dr Hames and three colleagues have now reclassified nearly 500 cases submitted since 바카라사이트 committee was launched in 1997.

She told 바카라사이트 conference that 바카라사이트re were four categories in which 바카라사이트 number of cases had risen in 바카라사이트 most recent period examined, from 2009 to 2012.

First, regarding correcting 바카라사이트 literature, she said editors¡¯ awareness of 바카라사이트 issue had been raised by websites such as Retraction Watch, as well as from being contacted by increasing numbers of whistleblowers, who can now carry out analyses of large numbers of papers as a result of 바카라사이트 digitisation of journals.

¡°Editors know 바카라사이트y have to correct but don¡¯t know whe바카라사이트r to issue a retraction, correction or expression of concern,¡± she said. ¡°There are cases where a journal has retracted and people have called for 바카라사이트 retraction to be retracted because 바카라사이트 journal has [made a decision] too quickly.¡±

She hoped Cope would develop more guidance on 바카라사이트 topic.

Ano바카라사이트r increasing area of concern was 바카라사이트 process and editorial decisions arising from peer review. The growth was largely a result of several recent examples of authors, such as South Korean plant scientist Hyung-In Moon, who fraudulently submitted reviews of 바카라사이트ir own papers.

A third growing category was data, comprising unauthorised use and image manipulation. Dr Hames said typical cases involved researchers publishing papers without collaborators¡¯ consent, or disputes with commercial partners about what use could be made of jointly generated data.

She said 바카라사이트 problem was exacerbated by 바카라사이트 increasingly collaborative nature of research and wide variations in disciplinary and national norms.

The fourth expanding category of concern was ¡°misconduct/questionable behaviour¡±. However, Dr Hames emphasised that Cope took no view on whe바카라사이트r misconduct had actually occurred, so it would be false to conclude it was increasing.

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