Hello,
I am a Masters Student at National Centre for Human Genome Studies and Research, India. I have been discussing experimentation designing for my senior's dissertation when I came across a strange yet deeply purturbing issue which i really want to share with the Scientific community here.
I came across a paper in very reputed scientific journal that had quite questionable data in terms of appropriate Control selection and experiment analysis, yet what bothered me is that inspite of such irregularities, it managed to get published in one of those so called "journals of very high repute!" Moreover, not even once, the author tried to relate/design his experiment to simulate physiological conditions but at the end he is simply extrapolating his data hypothetically to make a statement at physiological levels!
All my concerns regarding that paper were confirmed by senior PI's. I am not in favor of creating any controversies by naming the paper but with such papers keep on getting published in good journals, I am sure the day is not far away when we'll lose our trust in "good" journals! Kindly opine.
I am a Masters Student at National Centre for Human Genome Studies and Research, India. I have been discussing experimentation designing for my senior's dissertation when I came across a strange yet deeply purturbing issue which i really want to share with the Scientific community here.
I came across a paper in very reputed scientific journal that had quite questionable data in terms of appropriate Control selection and experiment analysis, yet what bothered me is that inspite of such irregularities, it managed to get published in one of those so called "journals of very high repute!" Moreover, not even once, the author tried to relate/design his experiment to simulate physiological conditions but at the end he is simply extrapolating his data hypothetically to make a statement at physiological levels!
All my concerns regarding that paper were confirmed by senior PI's. I am not in favor of creating any controversies by naming the paper but with such papers keep on getting published in good journals, I am sure the day is not far away when we'll lose our trust in "good" journals! Kindly opine.
Kind Regards,
Tarun Gupta
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MSc Human Genomics
National Centre for Human Genome Studies and Research
Panjab University
Chandigarh-India
Mob: +91-9888237906
Appeal: Let's not make information inaccessible to masses; Let's publish in Open Access Journals!
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