Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research
theconversation.com
‘Paper mills’ are contaminating the world’s scholarly output with fake papers that hinder research. Lifesaving biomedical fields are especially hard hit.
  • LouNeko@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    It’s fine. Don’t forget, pharmaceuticals sit on like 40 years of unpublished medical advancements because releasing them is “unprofitable”.

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    I really think that a federated system for scientific publication could sense. Each “journal” is a separate instance, federated with all others. A department, a school, a research institute, whatever could host it. You manage submission, editing, peer review, etc. through the system.

    • Cat@ponder.catOPEnglish
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      21 hours ago

      What do you mean exactly by federated in this context?

      What is getting federated in your ideal scenario?

      • Highstronaught@feddit.uk
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        20 hours ago

        I think what they mean is every journal behaves like an instance on lemmy, federated with eachother. One journal not living up to your standards, block them on your instance etc. Like lemmy