Guangdong.
Recently, there was an article that caused a huge stir on the Internet, which revealed a shocking fact: 25,000 articles were retracted by SCI journals**! It's an unbelievable number, as if it's astronomical. As soon as this news was announced, it immediately aroused heated discussions and worries.
SCI journal is one of the authoritative academic journals in the world, and has always been highly valued by the academic community. But now, it has withdrawn such a huge number of **, which is really surprising. How could the quality of ** suddenly have such a big problem? This is undoubtedly a wake-up call for the academic community, which makes people have to question the quality of the entire academic system.
What is even more shocking is that the retraction does not seem to have affected the agricultural sector. We all know that agriculture is one of the important pillar industries of the country, but in this retraction turmoil, the agricultural field was unscathed, and no ** was withdrawn. This makes one wonder: is there no problem in the agricultural sector? Isn't there a fake?
In fact, agriculture is not a pure land. In the past, there have been some misdeeds in the agricultural field, such as adulteration of agricultural products, tampering with production data, and so on. However, these problems have not been magnified like in the academic world, nor have they attracted widespread attention in society.
Why is this happening? One reason for this may be that the problems in agriculture are relatively hidden and not as easy to be attacked as in academia. In addition, the supervision in the agricultural sector is relatively weak, and the investigation and punishment of some violations may not be timely and thorough.
However, even if there are no large-scale problems in the agricultural sector like the SCI retraction, we should not take it lightly. We need to attach great importance to the issue of integrity in the agricultural field, strengthen supervision, and protect the quality of agricultural products and the interests of farmers. Only in this way can we ensure the sustained and healthy development of the agricultural sector and provide a solid guarantee for the country's agricultural modernization process.
To sum up, the SCI retraction incident is a wake-up call for us, which not only needs to be reflected by the academic community, but also needs to be alerted in the agricultural field. Only by maintaining integrity and strict regulation can we ensure the healthy development of academia and the agricultural sector.