US Elsevier 2012 Hacking (Q10505)
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US Elsevier 2012 Hacking
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January 2012
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Retraction Watch has learned that the Elsevier Editorial System (EES) was hacked sometime last month, leading to faked peer reviews and retractions although the submitting authors dont seem to have been at fault. As of now, eleven papers by authors in China, India, Iran, and Turkey have been retracted from three journals. The reviews by these fake reviewers, not surprisingly, were done incorrectly, and were not up to the journals standards of quality. But the authors, Cusano said, were innocent victims of this hacking problem, so the journal retracted the papers, and decided to allow them to resubmit the manuscripts for new peer review. (English)
