Retractions of scientific research papers going up

[Jamal]

 

[porchrat]

How many each year get retracted? This number higher than usual? Is the difference significant?

 

[Nick333]

http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2011/08/10/retractions-of-scientific-research-papers-going-up/



There have been 210 retractions so far this year.

Wow 210! That must account for .001 % of all papers published so far this year. Science has finally failed.

 

[UnUnOctium]

Seems the writers have never heard of peer review. But then again, if it's psychology, I don't think they're even allowed to be called scientific papers.

I also retracted a paper this year, purely because it got accepted to a better conference (and they will $hit bricks if you have the same paper in 2 different conferences)

 

[UnUnOctium]

You shouldn't submit a paper to more than one journal or conference at the same time even while waiting for notice of acceptance.

I know. I took advantage of the fact that the organising parties of both conferences didn't have access to each others' databases. An interesting special case.

 

[Pitbull]

Wow 210! That must account for .001 % of all papers published so far this year. Science has finally failed.

What is sad is the fact that these passed peer review. No matter what percentage they resemble

 

[DJ...]

What is sad is the fact that these passed peer review. No matter what percentage they resemble

Er, no they didn't. Hence the retractions...:erm:

 

[UnUnOctium]

Er, no they didn't. Hence the retractions...:erm:

Retractions happen AFTER acceptance by peer-review. It's usually when the papers are discovered by chance, by a 3rd party to be plagiarised/doctored [love this pun]/etc. The authors know very well and take the chance as everyone seems to be mad about quantity in the 'publications' part of your CV rather than quality.

The peer review process is also HIGHLY dependent on the conference. More prestigious conferences will have more prestigious technical programmes (reviewers for the layman). Reviewers are never paid, it's a volunteer job. I'm one for the biggest telecomms conference locally and you'll be surprised at the papers that get submitted. I also do secondary review for flagship international conferences (think GLOBECOM) and the paper quality there is just levels beyond 99% of papers that get submitted to the local conferences.

It's really amazing when you sit down with a paper that has bits copied from other papers by people who can't even follow formatting rules versus a paper where you struggle to find any faults and the only thing you can comment on is how good it is and to try and be very nitpicking with the spelling/grammar.

 

[Pitbull]

Er, no they didn't. Hence the retractions...:erm:

huh?

Did you read the article? I'm just going on what was said in the article