Some people on this list seem to think that reviewers are on the whole lazy and irresponsible and in need of some sort of public ridicule.
Please don't forget that reviewing manuscripts, while an important duty for members of the community, is already in practice a completely thankless volunteer job. My understanding is that journal editors often have a very difficult job talking 3 people per paper into acting as reviewers. ===================================== Phoebe A. Rice Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology The University of Chicago phone 773 834 1723 http://bmb.bsd.uchicago.edu/Faculty_and_Research/01_Faculty/01_Faculty_Alphabetically.php?faculty_id=123 http://www.rsc.org/shop/books/2008/9780854042722.asp ---- Original message ---- >Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:42:34 -0500 >From: CCP4 bulletin board <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> (on behalf of Jacob Keller ><j-kell...@fsm.northwestern.edu>) >Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Another paper & structure retracted >To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > >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 Structure 2QNS withdrawn.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> >> > > > >-- >******************************************* >Jacob Pearson Keller >Northwestern University >Medical Scientist Training Program >cel: 773.608.9185 >email: j-kell...@northwestern.edu >*******************************************
