Who's afraid of peer review?

Dozens of open-access journals targeted in an elaborate Science sting accepted a spoof research article, raising questions about peer-review practices in much of the open-access world.

• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  2013-10-04

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Education, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1126/science.342.6154.60PMID 24092725
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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