Preparing the final nails to seal the coffin of genuine science

Gulaboski, Rubin (2024) Preparing the final nails to seal the coffin of genuine science. Macedonian Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, 43 (2). pp. 285-289. ISSN 1857-5552

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Abstract

Science is meant to be shared and discussed, not sold. However, over the past two decades, the phrase "publish or perish" has led significantly to the decline of genuine scientific inquiry. Today's science is often more about profit than sharing knowledge. Neuropsychologist Bernhard Sabel, using a fake-paper detector developed by him, was "stunned" to discover that after screening approximately 5000 pa-pers, up to 34% of neuroscience articles published in2020 were either fabricated or plagiarized. In medicine, the rate was 25%. Currently, more than 11,000 scientific journals operate based on a pay-to-publish open access model (excluding the so-called "predatory journals"), contributing to an industry valued at approximately $20 billion USD. Alongside the annual publication of over 7 million papers (estimated for 2023), concerns are mounting about flawed, incorrect, or fabricated data. The recent introduction of tools like ChatGPT has further elevated ethical concerns related to irregularities, errors, falsification in published papers to a new level. This work aims to highlight the major concerns regarding how the policies of many pay-to-publish journals harm the integrity of real science. The insights presented are based on the author's personal experiences and observations over 15 years as a referee for numerous journals. Meanwhile, the metric of "number of published papers per year" and "profit margins" seem to be the only "valuable" aspects of modern "science"

Item Type:	Article
Impact Factor Value:	1.10
Subjects:	Natural sciences > Chemical sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Medical Science
Depositing User:	Rubin Gulaboski
Date Deposited:	02 Jan 2025 08:53
Last Modified:	02 Jan 2025 08:53
URI:	https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/35349

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