Nothing Is Sacred
22/12/11 13:16 Filed in: GenomeWeb Daily Scan
Submitted by S. Pelech - Kinexus on Sun, 12/25/2011 - 17:03.
With around a million scientific papers published annually, it is not surprising that some of these papers are retracted. Even though there has been a rise in the recent rate of retractions from journals, the overall numbers of flagged publications are still relatively miniscule. There are a lot more problematic scientific papers out there in the literature. There really needs to be the wide spread implementation of post-publication peer review that is directly linked to the original scientific work. The additions of commentaries that provide supplementary support or refutes the findings of the published paper, perhaps as comments from other scientist that fully disclose their identities, is probably the best solution. If a publication garners too many negative comments from the community, then the publication should be ultimately expunged from the journal record. With the imminent launch of Kinetica Online from Kinexus Bioinformatics Corporation, this is a system that we plan to adopt as we publish original studies, initially from our own company.
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With around a million scientific papers published annually, it is not surprising that some of these papers are retracted. Even though there has been a rise in the recent rate of retractions from journals, the overall numbers of flagged publications are still relatively miniscule. There are a lot more problematic scientific papers out there in the literature. There really needs to be the wide spread implementation of post-publication peer review that is directly linked to the original scientific work. The additions of commentaries that provide supplementary support or refutes the findings of the published paper, perhaps as comments from other scientist that fully disclose their identities, is probably the best solution. If a publication garners too many negative comments from the community, then the publication should be ultimately expunged from the journal record. With the imminent launch of Kinetica Online from Kinexus Bioinformatics Corporation, this is a system that we plan to adopt as we publish original studies, initially from our own company.
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