Dana Farber retractions: How they slipped through peer review
The troubles arise amid pressures to publish, too many journals, and two few reviewers.
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The troubles arise amid pressures to publish, too many journals, and two few reviewers.
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During a meeting with Dr Eric J Rubin, Editor-in-Chief, New England Journal of Medicine, Dr Singh raised an issue close to his heart.
By - Kamran Abbasi, Parveen Ali, Virginia Barbour, Kirsten Bibbins‐Domingo, Marcel GM Olde Rikkert, Andy Haines, Ira Helfand, Richard C Horton, Bob Mash, Arun Mitra, Carlos A Monteiro, Elena N Naumova, Eric J Rubin, Tilman A Ruff, Peush Sahni, James Tumwine, Paul Yonga and Chris Zielinski Med J Aust || doi: 10.5694/mja2.52054, 7 August 2023 In January…
The role of health professionals In January 2023, the science and security board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of the doomsday clock forward to 90 seconds before midnight, reflecting the growing risk of nuclear war.1 In August 2022, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, warned that the world is now in “a time of nuclear danger not seen since the height of the Cold War.”2 The danger has been underlined by growing tensions between many nuclear armed states.13 As editors of health and medical journals worldwide, we call on health professionals to alert the pu...