From: Mary Summerfield <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 01:52:27 +0000 Thomson Reuters looks for such activities as well and penalizes publications that are found to be involved. Mary Summerfield > On Jul 9, 2014, at 6:48 PM, "LIBLICENSE" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > [MOD NOTE: Kudos to Sage for investigating this so fully. But just what > is a Peer Review and Citation Ring, and how do you create one?? Have > there been such instances previously?] > > > From: Gary Price <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 4:27 PM > > From News Release: > > http://www.sagepub.com/press/2014/july/1.sp > > "SAGE announces the retraction of 60 articles implicated in a peer > review and citation ring at the Journal of Vibration and Control > (JVC). > > The full extent of the peer review ring has been uncovered following a > 14 month SAGE-led investigation, and centres on the strongly suspected > misconduct of Peter Chen, formerly of National Pingtung University of > Education, Taiwan (NPUE) and possibly other authors at this > institution. > > In 2013 the then Editor-in-Chief of JVC, Professor Ali H. Nayfeh,and > SAGE became aware of a potential peer review ring involving assumed > and fabricated identities used to manipulate the online submission > system SAGE Track powered by ScholarOne Manuscripts. Immediate action > was taken to prevent JVC from being exploited further, and a complex > investigation throughout 2013 and 2014 was undertaken with the full > cooperation of Professor Nayfeh and subsequently NPUE. > > In total 60 articles have been retracted from JVC after evidence led > to at least one author or reviewer being implicated in the peer review > ring. Now that the investigation is complete, and the authors have > been notified of the findings, we are in a position to make this > statement. > > While investigating the JVC papers submitted and reviewed by Peter > Chen, it was discovered that the author had created various aliases on > SAGE Track, providing different email addresses to set up more than > one account. Consequently, SAGE scrutinised further the co-authors of > and reviewers selected for Peter Chen’s papers, these names appeared > to form part of a peer review ring. The investigation also revealed > that on at least one occasion, the author Peter Chen reviewed his own > paper under one of the aliases he had created. > > Follwing Committee of Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines, SAGE and > Professor Nayfeh contacted Peter Chen with an opportunity to address > the accusations of misconduct. After a series of unsatisfactory > responses from Peter Chen, in September 2013 NPUE were notified and > have since been working closely alongside SAGE and JVC to uncover the > full extent of the peer review and subsequent citation ring. SAGE has > notified Thomson Reuters about the citation ring and both parties have > worked together to index the retractions in full. > > In May 2014 NPUE informed SAGE and JVC that Peter Chen had resigned > from his post on 2 February 2014." > > Additional Info/Background/Source URL: > http://www.sagepub.com/press/2014/july/1.sp > > Gary D. Price, MLIS > Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal's INFOdocket.com > Co-Founder and Editor, FullTextReports.com > Information Industry Analyst > Librarian > http://INFOdocket.com > http://FullTextReports.com