Hi Fred, It could also be that the high impact factor of these journals, and their 'tabloid' character ensures that they are read by more people than other journals. So any bad data or fraud that gets published in Nature, Cell or Science is more likely to get noticed and talked about, than something that appears in smaller impact journals.
And even some very big names aren't spared, which is a good thing. This one, for example http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v452/n7183/full/nature06819.html Ganesh On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:48:41 +0100, Vellieux Frederic <frederic.velli...@ibs.fr> wrote: > Hi all, > > Like everyone else, I was appalled. > > My two cents worth: Nature and Science are not scientific journals in > the strict sense of the term. They are more like magazines (I won't go > all the way to say "tabloids"), and as such will do anything to publish > what seems to be hot. And will reject very good scientific papers. So > it's not a surprise that retractions affect magazines such as Science > and Nature. > > Fred. -- What is true for E. coli is also true for an elephant - Jacques Monod.
