Phys.org April 13, 2023 Procedures for monitoring the trustworthiness of research, and for investigating cases where concern about possible data fraud have been raised are not well established. Based on the well-established practices of financial auditing, researchers in the UK have suggested a practical approach for the investigation of work suspected of fraudulent data manipulation using Benford’s Law. They provided synthesis of the literature on tests of adherence to Benford’s Law, culminating in advice of a single initial test for digits in each position of numerical strings within a dataset. They recommend further tests which may prove useful if specific […]
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The peer review system is broken. We asked academics how to fix it
Phys.og July 25, 2022 Peer review is an essential part of academic publishing, yet many authors, reviewers, and editors have reportedly encountered problems with the review process. Some scholars view peer-review as a necessary process for the advancement of science, while other scholars argue that for many publishers and journals, both authors and reviewers are being exploited. An international team of researchers (Australia, UK, United States) provides a narrative review of current perspectives and available research on the peer-review process to date and, summarizes potential solutions elicited from scholars on Twitter. A review of the literature identified several problems with […]