{"id":195030,"date":"2024-08-23T05:37:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T10:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/exclusive-biochemistry-journal-retracts-25-papers-for-systematic-manipulation-of-peer-review"},"modified":"2024-08-23T05:37:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T10:37:18","slug":"exclusive-biochemistry-journal-retracts-25-papers-for-systematic-manipulation-of-peer-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/exclusive-biochemistry-journal-retracts-25-papers-for-systematic-manipulation-of-peer-review","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Biochemistry journal retracts 25 papers for \u2018systematic manipulation\u2019 of peer review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exclusive-biochemistry-journal-retracts-25-papers-for-systematic-manipulation-of-peer-review2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A journal of the UK-based Biochemical Society is retracting 25 papers after finding \u201csystematic manipulation of our peer-review and publication processes by multiple individuals,\u201d according to a statement provided to Retraction Watch.<\/p>\n<p>The batch of retractions for <em>Bioscience Reports<\/em> is \u201cthe first time that we have issued this many retractions in one go for articles that we believe to be connected,\u201d managing editor Zara Manwaring said in an email.<\/p>\n<p>As academic publishing grapples with its <a href=\"https:\/\/retractionwatch.com\/2021\/12\/20\/revealed-the-inner-workings-of-a-paper-mill\/\">papermill<\/a> problem, many firms are retracting articles by the <a href=\"https:\/\/retractionwatch.com\/2023\/06\/20\/deplorable-imaging-journal-to-retract-nearly-80-papers-for-compromised-peer-review\/\">dozens<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/retractionwatch.com\/2023\/11\/02\/sage-retracts-more-than-200-papers-from-journal-for-compromised-peer-review\/\">hundreds<\/a>, or even <a href=\"https:\/\/retractionwatch.com\/2023\/12\/19\/hindawi-reveals-process-for-retracting-more-than-8000-paper-mill-articles\/\">thousands<\/a> after discovering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/paper-mills-bribing-editors-scholarly-journals-science-investigation-finds\">foul play<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A journal of the UK-based Biochemical Society is retracting 25 papers after finding \u201csystematic manipulation of our peer-review and publication processes by multiple individuals,\u201d according to a statement provided to Retraction Watch. The batch of retractions for Bioscience Reports is \u201cthe first time that we have issued this many retractions in one go for articles [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}