Re: Facing up to fraud - China's exponential research growth could fuel fraud

2010-02-19 Thread Leslie Carr
On 19 Feb 2010, at 05:00, Dana Roth wrote: The January 25 issue of Chemistry Industry (issue 2, 2010) has a short article on research fraud which includes a sidebar on the situation in China (see below). This suggests that, contrary to Heather Morrison's suggestion, scholar led open

Re: Facing up to fraud - China's exponential research growth could fuel fraud

2010-02-19 Thread Marc Couture
Dana Roth wrote : This [concerns about research fraud in China] suggests that, contrary to Heather Morrison's suggestion, scholar led open access publishing is not a viable solution. I'm sorry, but I don't quite follow the argument. Could Ms Roth explain how one makes the link between, on

Re: Facing up to fraud - China's exponential research growth could fuel fraud

2010-02-19 Thread C Oppenheim
Carr Sent: 19 February 2010 10:13 To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Subject: Re: Facing up to fraud - China's exponential research growth could fuel fraud On 19 Feb 2010, at 05:00, Dana Roth wrote: The January 25 issue of Chemistry Industry (issue 2, 2010) has

Re: Facing up to fraud - China's exponential research growth could fuel fraud

2010-02-19 Thread Dana Roth
...@listserver.sigmaxi.org] On Behalf Of Leslie Carr Sent: 19 February 2010 10:13 To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Subject: Re: Facing up to fraud - China's exponential research growth could fuel fraud On 19 Feb 2010, at 05:00, Dana Roth wrote: The January 25 issue of Chemistry

Re: Facing up to fraud - China's exponential research growth could fuel fraud

2010-02-19 Thread C Oppenheim
-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Subject: Re: Facing up to fraud - China's exponential research growth could fuel fraud While that may be true ... isn't most of the TA fraud in the medical field ... which occurs because long range studies can't reasonably be reproducable

Re: Facing up to fraud - China's exponential research growth could fuel fraud

2010-02-19 Thread Jean-Claude Guédon
This has to be one of the most telling (and funniest) non sequitur I have ever read. A textbook example if there ever were one. Why would Open Access (which is about access, not peer review) lead to sloppy peer review? When an OA journals such as PLOS biology with an impact factor hovering over 12

Re: Facing up to fraud - China's exponential research growth could fuel fraud

2010-02-19 Thread Heather Morrison
On 18-Feb-10, at 9:00 PM, Dana Roth wrote: The January 25 issue of Chemistry Industry (issue 2, 2010) has a short article on research fraud which includes a sidebar on the situation in China (see below). This suggests that, contrary to Heather Morrison's suggestion, scholar led open access

Facing up to fraud - China's exponential research growth could fuel fraud

2010-02-18 Thread Dana Roth
The January 25 issue of Chemistry Industry (issue 2, 2010) has a short article on research fraud which includes a sidebar on the situation in China (see below). This suggests that, contrary to Heather Morrison's suggestion, scholar led open access publishing is not a viable solution. Without