From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 09:08:13 -0500 It occurs to me that there is one very simple way for places like OASPA and DOAJ to check whether journals are actually using peer review in a responsible manner, whatever their stated policies may be. Just ask a journal whose integrity has been questioned to supply a list of scholars who have been consulted as reviewers in the past year or six months, without needing to have them identify which articles they have reviewed. Then contact a random sample of those scholars to ask them directly if they have prepared reports for the journal during this time period. This should be a relatively simple procedure to carry out. Does anyone know if this kind of inquiry has been pursued? Sandy Thatcher > From: Dom Mitchell <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:45:01 +0200 > > Two weeks ago DOAJ published a brief response to the Bohannon article: > > http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=news&nId=315&uiLanguage=en > > We promised then to come back with a second response once we had > carried out some further analysis. We have published that response > today: > > http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=news&nId=317&uiLanguage=en > > In it we explain what has happened to the journals in DOAJ that > accepted Bohannon's fake paper and we explain why we think that > Bohannon's choice of fake author names is damaging to scholarly > publishing. > > Dom Mitchell > Community Manager, DOAJ > Tel: +46 (0)702044095 - mob/cell > +44 (0)207 097 8565 > Skype: dommitchellhw