Predatory publishing. The list formerly known as Beall's. Publishing economics. Pathologies of publish-or-perish culture. Pursuit of PR instead of progress. Data dredging, p-hacking, and similar malfeasance.
- Fake academe looking much like the real thing. New York Times Dec. 29, 2016.
- Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky (2016) Why fake data when you can fake a scientist? Nautilus November 24.
- Tools and tricks: How can you know if a paper is legit?
Supplementary Reading
- J. P. Simmons et al. (2011) False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant. Psychological Science 22:1359–1366
