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ArticleScience and engineering ethics2018

A Method for Improving the Integrity of Peer Review.

Mehdi Dadkhah, Mohsen Kahani, Glenn Borchardt

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Article in Science and engineering ethics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Mehdi DadkhahDepartment of Management, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran. Mehdidadkhah@mail.um.ac.ir.
Mohsen KahaniWTLab, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.
Glenn BorchardtProgressive Science Institute, Box 5335, Berkeley, CA, 94705, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Peer review is the most important aspect of reputable journals. Without it, we would be unsure about whether the material published was as valid and reliable as is possible. However, with the advent of the Internet, scientific literature has now become subject to a relatively new phenomenon: fake peer reviews. Some dishonest researchers have been manipulating the peer review process to publish what are often inferior papers. There are even papers that explain how to do it. This paper discusses one of those methods and how editors can defeat it by using a special review ID. This method is easy to understand and can be added to current peer review systems easily.

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DeceptionScientific MisconductFraudHumansInternetPeer ReviewPeer Review, ResearchPublishingResearch PersonnelAcademic ethicsAcademic misconductFabricated peer reviewFake peer reviewIntegrity of peer reviewPeer review

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