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掠夺性期刊收下了一篇关于滑板车与羟氯喹的假论文
Predatory journal accepts fake story about scooters and hydroxychloroquine
导读
这篇报道讲的是一本掠夺性期刊（只收钱、不认真审稿的期刊）刊发了一篇关于滑板车和羟氯喹的假论文，用来揭露这类期刊根本不审稿。对写作者来说，这篇值得读的地方在于：它让人看到「发表渠道」如何决定文字被赋予的可信度，以及用恶搞和钓鱼式写作（故意写假论文去揭穿问题）去揭穿问题时的效果与风险。
可以直接用的写作要点
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你选择在哪里发表或发布，等于为你的文字选择了一份背书；同一段话换个渠道，读者给它的信任度会完全不同。
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识别不可靠渠道有固定套路：看是否收取高额发表费、是否承诺极速录用、刊名是否近似知名品牌，这套方法同样适用于判断日常信息源。
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引用即背书：一篇论文被谁引用、怎么被引用，会改变它在公共讨论中的分量；写作时引用他人，务必回到原始语境。
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用恶搞或伪造去揭穿荒谬是有效的修辞手法，但要预先说明意图并留下证据链，否则可能被反过来指为欺骗。
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掠夺性期刊是发表压力催生的产物，而真正需要警惕的是灰色地带的垃圾期刊和指标化评价。
掠夺性期刊什么稿都发，只为赚钱，没人读，写进简历反而是减分项。它们利用的是博士后承受的疯狂发表压力——过去足以拿到终身教职的高质量论文数量，现在只够换来一个短期博士后资助。我更担心的是大量处在灰色地带的「非掠夺性垃圾期刊」，很多同行靠它们给简历注水，一些国家的高校招聘又过度依赖指标计数。优质研究需要时间，某些学科正在变成一场奔向平庸的竞赛。
jonathanstrange查看英文原文
It's a predatory journal, so what else would you expect? There is a reason why these are ignored in Academia or might even get you into trouble with your university and/or funding authorities if you publish in one of those. They prey on postdocs who are under insane publication pressures - the amount of high quality publications that used to ensure you're getting tenure nowadays barely manage to get you a temporary follow-up postdoc grant. I've personally been in committees for crappy short-term postdoc calls in which the majority of candidates should have been assistant professors. These journals will publish anything, they are only in it for the money. Nobody reads them and if they are in your CV they count against you. Academics are bombarded with "invitations" to those predatory journals, I'm getting several mails a day and sometimes even have to check carefully because they tend to have almost the same title as highly reputable journals. To be fair, it's quite easy to recognize them once you see their "publication fees". I'm personally more worried about the many non-predatory crap journals that reside in some grey zone, since many colleagues successfully overinflate their CVs with the help of those and in some countries universities are relying way too much on mere indicator counting in their hiring policies. Quality research takes time and there is a race to mediocrity at some places in some disciplines. (Arguably, this does not apply to the top universities but most universities are not top, of course.)
假论文不是随机选靶：这本期刊此前发过被政客当作权威引用的论文，暴露了「同行评审」标签被滥用的后果。
事情不止如此。那家期刊之所以被盯上，是因为它七月刊发了一篇法国医生团队支持羟氯喹加阿奇霉素的论文；该文随后被法国议员 Martine Wonner 引用，称其经过充分同行评审、与《柳叶刀》上的论文具有同等价值，目的是让医生可以自行决定开这种药。
stzup7查看英文原文
This is not the full story. That specific journal was targeted because they published an article in favour of Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin back in July by a team of French doctors (https://www.journalajmah.com/index.php/AJMAH/article/view/30224) That same article was then cited by French member of parliament Martine Wonner as being sufficiently peer reviewed and having the same value as a paper published by Lancet, with intent to let doctors prescribe hcq as they see fit. Details (in French): http://www.mimiryudo.com/blog/2020/08/le-meilleur-article-de-tous-les-temps/
钓鱼式写作在道德上存在争议：揭弊的正当性未必能免除作者本人被追责的风险。
伪造论文属于学术不端；那么以揭露掠夺性期刊审稿漏洞为目的而写假论文的作者，是否也该被指控不端？这个问题争论已久，比如索卡尔事件中，假论文作者就曾被指欺骗。做过类似事情的 Peter Boghossian 教授，还被波特兰州立大学禁止继续从事研究。
RcouF1uZ4gsC查看英文原文
> A fake paper is fabricated research, which falls under the definition of misconduct. So should the authors of such spoof papers, who write those with the intention to expose flaws in the peer-review process of predatory journals be accused of misconduct themselves? There have been many discussions about that, such as in the case of the Sokal Hoax, where the author of the fake paper was accused of deceit. Another professor, Peter Boghossian, who did something like this was actually banned from further research by Portland State University. https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13489
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