BioMed Central to retract 43 papers for fake peer review - March 30, 2015
Open access publisher BioMed Central is retracting 43 papers, following their investigation into 50 papers that raised suspicions of fake peer review, possibly involving third-party companies selling the service. In November 2014 there were reports about fake peer reviews for Nature. At that point there had… Read More
Thieme Publishers Delhi named official publisher for the Trauma Society of India - March 30, 2015
Thieme Publishers Delhi (TPD) has signed on as the official publisher for the Trauma Society of India (TSI). TPD has agreed to publish two titles per year for TSI. Guidelines in Fracture Management – Nonunion Part 1 and Guidelines in Fracture Management – Proximal Tibia were… Read More
Professor Joachim Sauer joins the Editorial Board of Journal of Catalysis - March 26, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier and the editorial team of Journal of Catalysis are delighted to announce that Professor Joachim Sauer of the Humboldt-Universität Berlin has joined Professors Johannes Lercher, Christophe Copéret, Graham Hutchings, Matthew Neurock, Hans Niemantsverdriet, S. Ted Oyama and Fabio Ribeiro as Editor of Journal… Read More
Elsevier and the International Society for Sexual Medicine announce publishing agreement - March 25, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier has announced that it has been selected by the International Society for Sexual Medicine (ISSM) to publish its flagship journal, The Journal of Sexual Medicine, as well as Sexual Medicine Reviews and open access journal Sexual Medicine, as of January 2016. The Journal… Read More
Wiley launches interdisciplinary OA journal, Inside the Cell - March 25, 2015
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced the launch of Inside the Cell as part of the Wiley Open Access publishing program. Inside the Cell publishes research covering a broad range of areas within cell and molecular biology and seeks to… Read More
Springer and Université Joseph Fourier release new, open source software to discover fake scientific papers - March 24, 2015
STM publisher Springer has announced the release of SciDetect, a new software program that automatically checks for fake scientific papers. This is the result of an intensive collaboration with Dr. Cyril Labbé from Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France. The open source software discovers text that… Read More
