‘Dozens of scientific papers have been pulled from a prominent international journal after an investigation revealed that they were all illicitly passed through the peer-review process. All 60 studies, explains a recent announcement by the independent academic publishing group SAGE, were the product of a covert “peer review ring” involving phony peer reviewers that were completely fabricated and non-existent.
All of the studies had been published in the Journal of Vibration and Control (JVC) by a Taiwanese professor named Peter Chen, who at the time worked for the National Pingtung University of Education (NPUE). Chen allegedly created a number of aliases in the SAGE Track system, which he then used to peer review his own papers as if he were other people.’ Read more
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