Who's Afraid of Peer Review?

2013/10/03 by John Bohannon · 12 citations
Decision Sciences · #Academic Publishing and Open Access #scientometrics and bibliometrics research

paper · doi:10.1126/science.342.6154.60

openalex publication_date 2013/10/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/03

Abstract

A spoof paper concocted by Science reveals little or no scrutiny at many open-access journals.

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