Re:An Elaborate Academic-Journal Hoax
by malvosenior on Thursday October 04, 2018 @09:32AM
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> The purpose of peer review is to decide whether a paper is useful to the community, whether the presentation is good enough that the community can precisely understand what happened, and whether it has methodological issues that the authors may have missed.
It clearly failed to do that in this case.
Re:An Elaborate Academic-Journal Hoax
by UncleMeat on Thursday October 04, 2018 @12:24PM
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Ok? That somebody with a year of free time and a pile of fraudulent attempts can get through sometimes is not exactly a surprise.
A system that prevents what the authors did here would necessarily reject a huge amount of useful research.
The purpose of peer review is to decide whether a paper is useful to the community, whether the presentation is good enough that the community can precisely understand what happened, and whether it has methodological issues that the authors may have missed. But we always approach reviews with a charitable lens, even when reviewing for extremely low-acceptance outlets.
The process that detects the bad research comes afterwards, as it should.