The failings of peer review (see e.g. <retractionwatch.org> for a compedium of cases we know actually about) are really alarming, and hopefully serious corrective measures will be taken to improve...
The failings of peer review (see e.g. <retractionwatch.org> for a compedium of cases we know actually about) are really alarming, and hopefully serious corrective measures will be taken to improve academic integrity.
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The data showed that between 2008 and 2010, institutions such as the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Princeton produced the greatest number of highly cited math papers (defined as the top 1% by citation number), with 28 and 27, respectively. But in 2021 to 2023, institutions with little mathematical tradition, many based in China, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, had displaced them. In this period, China Medical University in Taiwan topped the list with 95 highly cited math papers—compared with none a decade earlier. UCLA, meanwhile, had just a single highly cited paper.
I think the discussion starts and ends here really:
The failings of peer review (see e.g. <retractionwatch.org> for a compedium of cases we know actually about) are really alarming, and hopefully serious corrective measures will be taken to improve academic integrity.
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