Opening Pandora's box: cause and impact of errors on plant pigment studies

Fernández Marín, Beatriz; Artetxe, Unai; Barrutia, Oihana; Esteban Terradillos, Raquel; Hernández, Antonio; García Plazaola, José Ignacio

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Opening Pandora's box: cause and impact of errors on plant pigment studies

dc.contributor.author	Fernández Marín, Beatriz
dc.contributor.author	Artetxe, Unai
dc.contributor.author	Barrutia, Oihana
dc.contributor.author	Esteban Terradillos, Raquel
dc.contributor.author	Hernández, Antonio
dc.contributor.author	García Plazaola, José Ignacio
dc.contributor.department	IdAB. Instituto de Agrobiotecnología / Agrobioteknologiako Institutua	es_ES
dc.date.accessioned	2018-09-04T06:43:51Z
dc.date.available	2018-09-04T06:43:51Z
dc.date.issued	2015
dc.description.abstract	Today, there is an astonishing volume of scientific information available for researchers, which can be easily accessed through powerful search tools. Yet, the question now is whether all this vast amount of information is reliable. In this sense, a “bad science” controversy arose recently when many Open Access (OA) journals (more than a half) published a false, error-ridden paper, which had been submitted in order to test the publishing ethics of these journals (Bohannon, 2013). This fake article was published mainly by fraudulent journals, but it was also accepted by a number of OA journals of renowned publishers with peer-review systems. The failure to reject an article full of errors revealed that the system's gearbox is leaking somewhere. The carelessness of peer-reviews in a number of OA journals has opened a Pandora's Box, and what is more disconcerting, nobody can guarantee that it could not also affect regular journals (non OA). Traditionally, it has been assumed that scientific journals should detect and correct all these failings through the peer review before publication. Regrettably, as we show in this communication, the system is far from being perfect (Pulverer, 2010; Székely et al., 2014).	en
dc.description.sponsorship	Supporting from BFU 2010-15021, UPV/EHU-GV IT-624-13 grant, JAE-Doc-2011-046 fellow from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) received by RE and Marie Curie IEF grant (328370 MELISSA) from the European FP7-PEOPLE received by BF-M, are acknowledged.	en
dc.format.extent	5 p.
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dc.identifier.doi	10.3389/fpls.2015.00148
dc.identifier.issn	1664-462X (Electronic)
dc.identifier.uri	https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/30441
dc.language.iso	eng	en
dc.publisher	Frontiers Media	en
dc.relation.ispartof	Frontiers in Plant Science, 6: 148	en
dc.relation.projectID	info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/European Commission/FP7/328370	en
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2015.00148
dc.rights	© 2015 Fernández-Marín, Artetxe, Barrutia, Esteban, Hernández and García-Plazaola. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.	en
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dc.subject	Plant pigment studies	en
dc.subject	Errors	en
dc.title	Opening Pandora's box: cause and impact of errors on plant pigment studies	en
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