It's hard to blame the reviewers on this one. When I read the paper I don't see anything to complain about other than the typo that swapped the bond length and angle rmsd's and the insanely low average B factor.
If Table 1 had included the real stats for this model bond length rmsd 0.106 A bond angle rmsd 4.44 deg % residues disallowed ~20% (100% for residues in the ligand) and the reviewers passed on it, then I would complain. We can argue that reviewers should have access to more information, but these reviewers seeing this paper would have no reason to reject it. Dale Tronrud On 08/11/11 14:42, Jacob Keller wrote: > Do reviewers ever get taken to task for these things? Don't they share > at least some of the responsibility? Maybe they should have to give > their explicit imprimatur, perhaps only after the fact, if published? > > JPK > > > > 2011/8/11 Colin Nave <colin.n...@diamond.ac.uk>: >> Well this article seems to have been refereed to 11 times so presumably >> these 11 publications also have to be retracted. I haven't checked the >> number of citations for each of the 11 publications but articles citing >> these will also be in doubt. And then ...... >> >> It reminds me somewhat of the Erdos number calculation. How many >> publications are each of us away from this. Is anyone safe. >> >> Colin :( >> >> From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of David >> Schuller >> Sent: 10 August 2011 22:01 >> To: ccp4bb >> Subject: [ccp4bb] Another paper & structure retracted >> >> Time to fuel up the gossip engines for the approaching weekend: >> >> >> http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096921260800186X >> >> RETRACTED: Structure of the Parathyroid Hormone Receptor C Terminus Bound to >> the G-Protein Dimer Gβ1γ2 >> Structure, Volume 16, Issue >> 7<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=PublicationURL&_tockey=%23TOC%236269%232008%23999839992%23693753%23FLA%23&_cdi=6269&_pubType=J&view=c&_auth=y&_acct=C000022719&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=492137&md5=9dc4b8953d3fa243dc98e395b6ac590d>, >> 9 July 2008, Pages 1086-1094 >> Structure 2QNS withdrawn. >> >> >> -- >> >> ======================================================================= >> >> All Things Serve the Beam >> >> ======================================================================= >> >> David J. Schuller >> >> modern man in a post-modern world >> >> MacCHESS, Cornell University >> >> >> schul...@cornell.edu<mailto:schul...@cornell.edu> >> > > >
