Journals and Publishers Crack Down on Research From Open Health Data Sets
Two major publishers have begun to automatically reject the vast majority of papers based on public health data sets, following revelations that unscrupulous actors use these data sets to churn out nonsense scientific papers. Associate Professor Rumi Chunara, whose work sometimes uses public data, says the policies are reasonable and should result in better quality science. Checklists like the one introduced by the Journal of Global Health take a lot of time but “make for good-quality work,” she says.
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Rumi Chunara
Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering and Biostatistics (Global Public Health)
