{"id":46827,"date":"2023-12-01T07:10:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T07:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/?p=46827"},"modified":"2023-12-10T02:50:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T02:50:27","slug":"up-to-3-of-medical-research-papers-are-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/46827","title":{"rendered":"Up to 3% of medical research papers are fake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"HTBsubhead2articletitle\"><strong>Simon Collins, HIV i-Base<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><strong>The seasonal bonus article, as we finish the issue this year, and highlighted in Nature &#8211; provides a caution<\/strong><strong> going into the New Year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\">A review of papers published over the last two decades concluded that 400,000 show strong similarities to previously published work or that were clearly produced by research paper mills.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\">Of these, approximately 70,000 were published during the last year, with a rate of 3% among biology and medicine papers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\">The analysis itself though is not yet published, and the report in Nature is behind a paywall, so the anarcho-skepticist editors at HTB proudly bow out, leaving you with highly unsatisfactory click-bait.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\">Reference<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\">How big is science\u2019s fake-paper problem? Nature. (6 November 2023)<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-03464-x<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Collins, HIV i-Base The seasonal bonus article, as we finish the issue this year, and highlighted in Nature &#8211; provides a caution going into the New Year. A review of papers published over the last two decades concluded that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46827"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46855,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46827\/revisions\/46855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}