Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Scientific publisher snookered by fake journal paid for by drug company

It sounds fairly dry, academic and dependable -- The Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine -- but it turns out that its publisher, Elsevier, the world’s leading scientific publisher allowed itself to be hoodwinked by Merck, the US pharmaceutical group.According to a story in the Financial Times, the journal was presented as being independent, with an honorary editorial board of

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