Goldberg David M
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Banting Institute, 100 College St., Toronto ON, Canada M5G 1X5.
Clin Biochem. 2006 May;39(5):473-81. doi: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2006.04.017. Epub 2006 Apr 22.
A published scientific paper is the end-result of a complex interaction between authors, referees, editors and publishers. Each brings to the process a different agenda, and a widely disparate adherence to standards of competence and integrity. Recent internationally recognized instances of major scientific fraud represent the tip of a potentially large iceberg formed as a consequence of the ineptness or delinquency of one or other elements in the chain of surveillance designed to exercise control over the process of scientific publishing. This subjective analysis attempts to explain why and where the regulatory mechanisms that ought to detect and eliminate the publication or the dissemination by other means of poor, erroneous, or frankly fraudulent scientific finds have broken down, and what can be done to fix them.
一篇已发表的科学论文是作者、审稿人、编辑和出版商之间复杂互动的最终成果。每个人在这个过程中都有不同的目的，并且在能力和诚信标准的遵守程度上也大相径庭。最近国际上公认的重大科学欺诈事件只是冰山一角，这可能是由于旨在控制科学出版过程的监督链条中某个环节的无能或失职而形成的潜在巨大冰山的顶端。这种主观分析试图解释为何以及在何处本应检测并消除劣质、错误或公然欺诈性科学发现的出版或以其他方式传播的监管机制失灵了，以及如何修复这些机制。
