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Comment on Does Scholarly Open-Access Publishing Increase Author Misconduct? by Shawn

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Yes and no… For example, the 2 groups of authors:

1) Scholars that publish questionable material
2) Low level scholars that would otherwise be difficult to publish

Scholars that engage in unethical practices would have done so in OA or subscription based model. I believe the % of scholars in this group is roughly the same.

However, there is definitely far more low level scholars that are willing to pay to publish. It seems like there is more misconduct, but that’s because there are more of these types of authors able to take advantage of the OA model.

OA does allow for post-publishing examination, and that is a good thing, but only a tiny fraction is ever looked at nevertheless examined. While it is possible to detect plagiarism, the equal if not greater sin of research fraud/data manipulation is far more difficult to detect without close examination. What % of misconduct is at the research level is anyone’s guess.


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