[DIYbio] Re: As Journal Boycott Grows, Elsevier Defends Its Practices

On Feb 4, 1:07 am, CoryG <c...@geesaman.com> wrote:
> More journal-related news and abuse:http://www.nature.com/news/researchers-feel-pressure-to-cite-superflu...http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6068/542

The supplementary data names the journals studied.
They studied only journals on economics, sociology, psychology, and
business (marketing, management, finance, information systems, and
accounting). These fields could be highly unusual - it looks like the
degree of corruption in business journals is unusually high, which
doesn't really surprise me.

209 out of 557 reported incidents of coercion were committed by 8 of
the 832 journals studied. 5 out of these 8 journals are published by
Elsevier. So this practice of coercion is probably committed more by
Elsevier than by all other publishers combined.

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