Trust The Science, Trust the science, trust the science . . . | “Hindawi and Wiley to retract over 500 papers linked to peer review rings” | Retraction Watch

‘After months of investigation that identified networks of reviewers and editors manipulating the peer review process, Hindawi plans to retract 511 papers across 16 journals, Retraction Watch has learned.

The retractions, which the publisher and its parent company, Wiley, will announce tomorrow in a blog post, will be issued in the next month, and more may come as its investigation continues. They are not yet making the list available.

Hindawi’s research integrity team found several signs of manipulated peer reviews for the affected papers, including reviews that contained duplicated text, a few individuals who did a lot of reviews, reviewers who turned in their reviews extremely quickly, and misuse of databases that publishers use to vet potential reviewers.

Richard Bennett, vice president of researcher and publishing services for Hindawi, told us that the publisher suspects “coordinated peer review rings” consisting of reviewers and editors working together to advance manuscripts through to publication. Some of the manuscripts appeared to come from paper mills, he said.

We asked what prompted the investigation. Bennett told us:

In April 2022, Hindawi’s Research Integrity team led an initial investigation into a single Special Issue (SI) after a Chief Editor raised concerns about some of the papers published in it. The team decided to investigate the content of the journal further. Through this investigation, the team highlighted a pattern of irregular and concerning reviewer activity and identified potential ‘bad actors’ that were present across many of these publications.

These concerns prompted the Publishing Insights and Research Integrity teams, enabled by recently enhanced analytic capabilities and newly developed dashboards providing views across all reviewer activity, to conduct a wider investigation to determine whether these same bad actors were involved in peer review manipulation elsewhere in the Hindawi portfolio.

Following the discovery that these bad actors were present in other journals, the Hindawi leadership team put in place a cross-functional working team combining the manual and data-driven investigation which resulted in the identification of further published articles.

In early August, Hindawi expanded the investigation under a combined investigation team comprising Research Integrity experts, data and analytics experts, publishing and operational teams, and legal counsel from both Wiley and Hindawi. This team evaluated in depth review activity across all potentially impacted articles and manuscripts. This resulted in a list of ‘compromised’ reviewers and editors in addition to the bad actors already discovered, identification of networks that exist between them, patterns of review activity, and insight into published articles and manuscripts at each stage in the review process that we could initially label as ‘compromised’. On September 6, the combined investigation team began assessing published articles which led to the initial recommendation to retract 511 articles that are compromised based on reviewer activity alone. We expect ongoing investigations to result in further retractions.’

 Exclusive: Hindawi and Wiley to retract over 500 papers linked to peer review rings | Retraction Watch

Skip The Scoop | Seek Understanding

Judge Arrested for Child Porn Headed Drag Queen Story Hour Club

Show Me

Amazon Won’t Sell Books Framing LGBTQ+ Identities as Mental Illnesses

Show Me

Author Says Amazon Used Lie to Justify Censoring His Book

Show Me

Mississippi governor signs bill to ban transgender athletes from women’s sports

Show Me

No Prison For Transgender Neo-Nazi After Threatening Black, Jewish Journalists

Show Me

Arkansas governor signs transgender sports ban into law

Show Me

Transgender actor Elliot Page knew he ‘wanted to be a boy’ at age NINE

Show Me

Mississippi Becomes First State to Ban Transgender Students from Women’s Sports

Show Me

Trans Model Leyna Bloom Lands Spot In 2021 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue

Show Me

Rachel Levine Becomes First Openly Trans Person to Win Senate Confirmation

Show Me

Transgender teen Stella Keating receives viral praise after testifying before Congress on Equality Act

Show Me

Women’s rights groups back transgender athletes competing in female sporting events

Show Me

BREAKING: Arkansas House Overrides Governor’s Veto Of Bill Banning Trans Puberty Blockers For Children

Show Me

Florida Legislature Approves Transgender Athlete Sports Ban

Show Me

Richard Dawkins Punished for Inviting us to Think

Show Me

‘Men Don’t Belong In My Sport’: Female Wrestler Calls Out Biden’s Trans Athlete Agenda

Show Me

Biden Withdraws Trump Transgender Proposal for Homeless Shelters

Show Me

Judge Thapar Asked Then If The University Would Force A Jewish Professor To Honor A Student’s Request To Be Addressed As “My Fuhrer.” | “Professor Can’t Be Punished For Not Using Transgender Student’s Pronouns, Appeals Court Rules”

Show Me

NCAA ‘Unequivocally Supports’ Transgender Biological Male Participation in College Women’s Sports

Show Me

SHOW NOTES: Thanks, Trevor Noah! Erasing Women’s Achievements One Puberty Blocker at a Time!

Show Me

261 Transgender Prisoners Request Transfer Under California Law; 255 to Women’s Prison

Show Me

Richard Dawkins is stripped of his Humanist Of The Year award

Show Me

Musician Ezra Furman announces she’s a transgender woman

Show Me

Bannon’s War Room | Saturday Edition Hour 1 | Recorded July 3, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 55 Seconds

Show Me

Bannon’s War Room | Saturday Edition Hour 2 | Recorded July 3, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 58 Seconds

Show Me

Freedom Tour Charlotte: Devin Nunes and Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski

Show Me

Bannon’s War Room | Morning Edition Hour 1 | Recorded July 2, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 23 Seconds

Show Me

Bannon’s War Room | Morning Edition Hour 2 | Recorded July 2, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 34 Seconds

Show Me

Bannon’s War Room | Evening Edition | Recorded July 2, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 58 Seconds

Show Me

PART 1: Why Mike Lindell WON’T Back Down

Show Me

PART 2: See No, Hear No, Speak No Election Fraud – Fighting the Good Fight Against Censorship

Show Me

PART 3: Mike Lindell Announces His Cyber Symposium, He is Laying it ALL Out There

Show Me

Bannon’s War Room | Morning Edition Hour 1 | Recorded July 1, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 23 Seconds

Show Me

Bannon’s War Room | Morning Edition Hour 2 | Recorded July 1, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 10 Seconds

Show Me

China leader Xi Jinping those who attempt to ‘bully’ will face ‘bloodshed,’ at Communist Party event

Show Me

Britney Spears and the Age-Old History of Men Policing Women’s Trauma

Show Me

Trump CFO Surrenders to Manhattan DA This Morning On Garbage Charges As Obama/Biden Try to Destroy the Trump Organization

Show Me

Deaths From Vaccine Top 6K As FDA Issues Warning After Spike In Cases Of Fatal Heart Inflammation

Show Me

Bannon’s War Room | Evening Edition | Recorded July 1, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 58 Seconds

Show Me

Bannon’s War Room | Morning Edition Hour 1 | Recorded June 30, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 45 Seconds

Show Me