{"id":159,"date":"2015-04-13T08:03:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T08:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/?p=159"},"modified":"2015-04-13T08:06:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T08:06:20","slug":"science-and-medicine-have-a-publication-pollution-problem-according-to-newly-published-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/2015\/04\/13\/science-and-medicine-have-a-publication-pollution-problem-according-to-newly-published-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Science and medicine have a \u2018publication pollution\u2019 problem, according to newly published commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The scientific community is facing a \u2018pollution problem\u2019 in academic publishing, and one that poses a serious threat to the \u201ctrustworthiness, utility, and value of science and medicine\u201d, according to one of the United State\u2019s leading medical ethicists (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.med.nyu.edu\/pophealth\/faculty\/caplaa01\" target=\"_blank\">Arthur Caplan<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayoclinicproceedings.org\/article\/S0025-6196%2815%2900190-1\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\">commentary<\/a> published on April 3rd 2015 in the journal <em>Mayo Clinic Proceedings<\/em><em>, <\/em>the author writes: &#8220;The pollution of science and medicine by plagiarism, fraud, and predatory publishing is corroding the reliability of research. Yet neither the leadership nor those who rely on the truth of science and medicine are sounding the alarm loudly or moving to fix the problem with appropriate energy.\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The full commentary can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayoclinicproceedings.org\/article\/S0025-6196%2815%2900190-1\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scientific community is facing a \u2018pollution problem\u2019 in academic publishing, and one that poses a serious threat to the \u201ctrustworthiness, utility, and value of science and medicine\u201d, according to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/2015\/04\/13\/science-and-medicine-have-a-publication-pollution-problem-according-to-newly-published-commentary\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Science and medicine have a \u2018publication pollution\u2019 problem, according to newly published commentary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Science and medicine have a \u2018publication pollution\u2019 problem, according to newly published commentary","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_publicize_connection_overrides":[],"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[69542],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plagiarism","post-no-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Yk5l-2z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}