⟳ Репост от Lou Roper
'Slapdash reviewer reports and ones that include unnecessary citation requests have long plagued academic publishing, but over the past few years the production of some has become much more sophisticated.'
‘A waste of time for all of us’: caught in the crossfire of the peer-review warsReview mills — researchers who write fake referee reports with coercive citation requests — are setting off a war in academic publishing. What happens to those caught in the middle?www.nature.com