Lessons from the recent publication scams
The article discusses growing number of scams by agencies, scientists and editors in publishing industry of China. It states that an authorship fee ranging from 1,600 dollars to 26,300 dollars, in journals indexed by Thomson Reuter's Science Citation Index, Thomson Reuter's Social Science...
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Current Science
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| Online Access: | http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/106/05/0649.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43510 |
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| author | Shah, Afroz Ahmad |
| author_facet | Shah, Afroz Ahmad |
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| description | The article discusses growing number of scams by agencies, scientists and editors in publishing industry of China. It states that an authorship fee ranging from 1,600 dollars to 26,300 dollars, in journals indexed by Thomson Reuter's Science Citation Index, Thomson Reuter's Social Science Citation Index and Elsevier's Engineering Index. It mentions that that talent based system in academia can also motivate scientists to wrongly inflate their findings. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-435102017-01-30T15:08:02Z Lessons from the recent publication scams Shah, Afroz Ahmad The article discusses growing number of scams by agencies, scientists and editors in publishing industry of China. It states that an authorship fee ranging from 1,600 dollars to 26,300 dollars, in journals indexed by Thomson Reuter's Science Citation Index, Thomson Reuter's Social Science Citation Index and Elsevier's Engineering Index. It mentions that that talent based system in academia can also motivate scientists to wrongly inflate their findings. 2014 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43510 http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/106/05/0649.pdf Current Science fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Shah, Afroz Ahmad Lessons from the recent publication scams |
| title | Lessons from the recent publication scams |
| title_full | Lessons from the recent publication scams |
| title_fullStr | Lessons from the recent publication scams |
| title_full_unstemmed | Lessons from the recent publication scams |
| title_short | Lessons from the recent publication scams |
| title_sort | lessons from the recent publication scams |
| url | http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/106/05/0649.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43510 |