{"id":8644,"date":"2013-12-08T20:06:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T20:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=8644"},"modified":"2013-12-08T20:06:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T20:06:07","slug":"more-academic-corruption-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2013\/12\/08\/more-academic-corruption-from-china\/","title":{"rendered":"More academic corruption from China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More news about <a href=\"http:\/\/o.canada.com\/uncategorized\/chinas-academic-black-market-fooled-canadian-journal-report-says\/\">how academic journal corruption works in China<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230; a report in the U.S. journal Science [told of how] \u201cChina\u2019s publication bazaar,\u201d as it is described, allows unscrupulous scientists to pay big money &mdash; up to $26,300 &mdash; to become authors of scientific papers they didn\u2019t write. [&#8230;] They don\u2019t do any experiments or research either [but are catered to by China&#8217;s] \u201cflourishing academic black market involving shady agencies, corrupt scientists and compromised editors &mdash; many of them operating in plain view,\u201d according to Science.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some of these dodgy papers are not simply published behind the Great Firewall of China.  For instance, one was found in a legitimate western journal called the <em>Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Publishing in journals &mdash; especially those with international credibility &mdash; is often key to academic promotion and is seen as critical in China. \u201cPeople are sparing no expense in order to get published in international journals,\u201d Fan Dongsheng, a neurologist and former vice-president of Peking University Third Hospital, told Science.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More news about how academic journal corruption works in China&#8230; &#8220;&#8230; a report in the U.S. journal Science [told of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2013\/12\/08\/more-academic-corruption-from-china\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}