Recent controversies over scientific fraud and other disputed findings have raised questions over the way in which journals select papers for publication. Is there a problem? And what more could be done to weed out dubious results? David Adam and Jonathan Knight investigate.
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Adam, D., Knight, J. Publish, and be damned.... Nature 419, 772–776 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/419772a
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