{"id":182090,"date":"2015-04-10T15:40:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T18:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=182090"},"modified":"2015-05-20T15:41:30","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T18:41:30","slug":"inappropriate-peer-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/inappropriate-peer-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Inappropriate peer review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Springer publisher has temporarily suspended publication of the journal <em>Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics<\/em> for maintaining a \u201cpattern of inappropriate and compromised peer review.\u201d It has opened an investigation to discover why the journal published 16 \u201cnonsense\u201d papers last year, which were generated by a computer program. Another paper, this one on anesthesia gases, was retracted for plagiarism in August 2014. \u201cThe scientific integrity of the journal cannot be guaranteed,\u201d the publisher explained in an official statement. The journal has an impact factor of 2.3 and was ranked 124 out of 185 publications in the cell biology category by Thomson Reuters. In communication to the site Retraction Watch, Edward J. Massaro, the journal\u2019s editor-in-chief, denied that there have been any ethical issues in the review process; he also voiced criticism of Springer and said that the stoppage presents a serious threat to the future of the journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inappropriate peer review","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[230],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-182090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-practices","tag-ethics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182090"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=182090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}