Autocorrect errors in Excel still creating genomics headache

Re:Autocorrect errors in Excel still creating genomics headache by guitarbill on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @12:52PM (#28212022)

It's easy to hate on Excel or Microsoft, a "dumb" program and a faceless mega corporation. Don't get me wrong, I'm no fan. But the real question is what are journals doing? It seems like the obvious solution is for editors and reviewers to do a quick search for these errors. To me, this is more of an indication of how poor most journals really are.

(You could argue that supplementary data should be in an open format, so you could automate this checking. I'm not against this, either.)

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Re:Autocorrect errors in Excel still creating genomics headache by nnmg on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @03:33PM (#28213894)

This is an important point. What have the journals done? Raised their prices and business as usual.

Scientific editors do nothing for data validation. There is no accountability, even after retractions.

Scientific journal editors are glorified gatekeepers for "high impact" work (read: flashy), and then use free reviewer labor to cover themselves so they can call it 'peer reviewed'. In the rare cases when journals do require supporting data, they explicitly ask for excel spreadsheets :(

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