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Nature recently announced that as publishers work hard to clean up a large number of falsehoods** and peer review fraud, the number of retractions of the published study** in 2023 has exceeded 10,000, a record high.
Most of these retractions came from journals owned by Hindawi, a London-based subsidiary of publisher Wiley. To date, more than 8,000 articles have been withdrawn from Hindawi journals, more than all publishers have retracted** in a year.
Hindawi has published a *** Addressing the Problem of Mass Publishing Manipulation. The *** explained"What happened to Hindawi", as well as the process the company developed to investigate and retract thousands of articles in the special issue.
According to ***, the staff of the Hindawi Research Integrity team found it in several special issues"Suspicious patterns"At the same time, independent researchers interested in research integrity are beginning to notice signs of large-scale systemic manipulation. These preliminary investigations and the findings of independent researchers suggest that the scale of penetration of the Hindawi special issue by the "* factory" has exceeded initial estimates, and that it is clear that thousands of manuscripts need to be investigated.
Hindawi has ceased publication of special issues since October 2022, conducting a thorough evaluation of all special issue manuscripts and using a comprehensive inventory of the characteristics of manuscripts produced by the "factory". Hindawi has also thoroughly reviewed and strengthened existing checks by editors, authors and reviewers. In order to investigate thousands of published articles, Hindawi developed a new protocol to be able to detect manipulation patterns and retract them quickly and at scale.
1 ** lists several criteria for hindawi retraction
1) Study scope mismatch;
2) There were differences in the reported study descriptions;
3) data availability does not match the study description;
4) Improper citation;
5) The content of the article is incoherent, meaningless, or irrelevant;
6) Being compromised or manipulating peer review.
In the face of articles that do not meet the standards and are about to be retracted, Hindawi also informs the authors in the form of an email with a "retraction notice", as shown in the figure below.
In addition to retracting thousands**, Hindawi has banned hundreds of guest editors of special issues from future editing and publication based on the findings. The publisher has also conducted a more rigorous review of proposals from special issues and guest editors, as well as a more rigorous review of peer review.
In closing, Hindawi called for industry-wide adoption of uniform standards to protect the safe development of the scholarly publishing industry. Following the incident, parent company Wiley's interim president and chief executive officer, Matthew Kissner, said on the company's recent earnings conference that Hindawi's "factory" problems cost Wiley about $35 million to $40 million in revenue this fiscal year. And Wiley will be discontinued"hindawi"Under this brand name, around 200 journals under Hindawi will be integrated into its main brand.
The announcement of this decision has undoubtedly brought a lot of shock to the academic community, although we cannot know whether similar things will happen in the future, but what we can do is to conduct research in good faith and not bury any hidden dangers for the future.
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