In 2014, Sage Publications retracted 60 articles after discovering authors created fake reviewer accounts to review their own papers. Springer retracted 64, BioMed Central 43. A single researcher, Hyung-In Moon, reviewed his own papers using fabricated identities. Some journals accepted papers generated by SCIgen, a program producing gibberish. The peer review system incentivizes speed over rigor and lacks transparency.
Hundreds of scientific papers retracted for fake peer reviews — authors secretly reviewed their own papers under fabricated identities
“The peer review system is broken. Scientists are reviewing their own papers under fake identities, journals accept computer-generated nonsense, and the process is easily manipulated.”
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