It does seem excessive, but keep in mind that the final report probably includes copies of the published articles examined, including the type-written submitted versions, referee reports, journal correspondence, email correspondence of various individuals involved with Das , data sheets, statistical analyses print-outs, experts' reports, depositions, etc. It all can add up.
Miguel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marie Helweg-Larsen" <[email protected]> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 11:39:12 AM Subject: RE: [tips] OH NO! Not the Wine Research! I was particularly fascinated by the NY Times statement that a special review board had produced a “60,000-page report” which had a 60-page summary. Even with an examination of 100s of articles it is hard to imagine how you could fill that many pages. Now kids – how much would that report even weigh? Marie **************************************************** Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology, Dickinson College Kaufman 168, Phone 717 245-1562 http://users.dickinson.edu/~helwegm/index.html **************************************************** From: Michael Palij [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 10:11 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Cc: Michael Palij Subject: [tips] OH NO! Not the Wine Research! The NY Times has an article on the alleged research fraud by Dipak K. Das of the University of Connecticut who reported on the beneficial effects of drinking wine. The fraud is extensive and affects 11 scientific journals. Here is the NY Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/12/science/fraud-charges-for-dipak-k-das-a-university-of-connecticut-researcher.html More detail, including quotes from UConn's press release on the matter is available on "Retraction Watch" website; see: http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/uconn-resveratrol-researcher-dipak-das-fingered-in-sweeping-misconduct-case/ One thing that should be noted is the final paragraph of the NY Times article which I quote here: |Dr. Das was a prolific publisher of research. His name |appears on 588 articles listed in Google Scholar, though |some may be by other researchers with the same name and |initials. Most of the articles concern the effect of drugs |on the heart, including 117 articles on resveratrol. There are a number of problems with using Google Scholar, especially for (a) determining the number of articles a researcher has published and (b) citation analysis. The Thomson Reuters service "Web of Science" (WoS), originally developed by the folks who created science/social science/humanities citation indexes, allows one to identify how many articles one has published (at least as represented in its comprehensive database) and the number of citations each article has. For Das, WoS lists him as having 124 articles, a mean citation per article of 9.44, and an h number of 22. Excluding self-citation, there are 998 citations of his research. So, Google Scholar inflates the number of articles that a specific researcher has publishes (when I checked for my pubs, GS provided multiple hits for a single article which explain the article inflation). WoS will provide a conservative estimate of the number of publications that a researcher has because it does not include all possible journals in its database (e.g., I have a pub in an obscure journal which was not in the database but, when it was cited by another researcher -- thanks David ;-) -- I pointed this out and it is now included in WoS sometimes). WoS gives a better estimate of the impact of Das's work but there probably is still some "error" in it. -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected] . To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13234.b0e864a6eccfc779c8119f5a4468797f&n=T&l=tips&o=15265 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-15265-13234.b0e864a6eccfc779c8119f5a44687...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected] . To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=466839.0421d1005414eed82340aa280e7ce629&n=T&l=tips&o=15267 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-15267-466839.0421d1005414eed82340aa280e7ce...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=15268 or send a blank email to leave-15268-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
