Science publishing trends, ethics, peer review, and open access
The first introduction to iMed Publishing ( iMed.pub ) for most people was not a good one. In October 2013, John Bohannon — a self-styled 'gonzo journalist' — announced that he had pulled off a sting of dodgy open access journal publishers by submitting a made-up article and seeing which took the bait — and many did. This triggered a debate about OA, peer review, and publishing ethics, as well as Bohannon's tactics. On 26 March 2015, International Archives of Medicine published a small German clinical
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