Science revealed the fake of Nature thesis, and the editor of IF9.5 Science

At the end of last month, talking about the biggest academic scandal was just that Science revealed that Sylvain Lesné, a neurologist at the University of Minnesota, was suspected of manipulating pictures, and pointed out that the first author published in Nature in 2006 on Nature. Essence

This incident was summarized by enthusiastic netizens as "Science to reveal the falsification of Nature thesis", but the careful editor found that the papers participated by the Sylvain Lesné author not only were Nature papers, but also the two papers of the SCIENCE SIGNALING. Science watched it. It seems to want to be secretly Chencang, but in fact it is to be staged.

Nature has listened too much. This SCIENCE sub -magazine seems to be rarely heard. What is the science signaling? Xiaobian wants to take this opportunity to talk about the SCIENCE subsidy: Science Signaling.

01. Science Signaling's tepid development path

Compared with the Cell family and the huge family of Nature, Science can count with a total of 5 sub -magazines with a total of 5 books. It is really thin!

Picture source: SCIENCE Journal Homepage

Any sub -magazine under the famous publication will always give people a sense of unknown calendar. There are always exceptions in everything, and this exception is exactly the Science Signaling we are talking about today (2021 IF 9.517).

In September 1999, a journal Science's Stke: Signal TransduDuctge Environment published by the AAAS: AMERICAN Association of Science launched the first volume. Next, the journal did not show the mountains and leaks, and developed in obscurity for several years.

The journal in the bottleneck finally reached the breakthrough and change. In January 2008, the journal Science's Stke was renamed Science Signaling and officially became a subsidiary of Science. In 2010, the SCI was included in the first influence factor 6.354. The 111 years have passed. The periodic influence factors rose to 9.517 in 2021. From the perspective of rising Essence

Now I look back at a younger brother who was founded later than herself. Even the influencing factors of the journal science Advances of the journal science have been opened to 14.957, and then look at yourself. You can only say that you hope to break through 10 in the new year.

The SCIENCE Journal Family Magazine was covered up by the brilliance of the Nature family sub -journal all year round. In addition, the mediocre factors of the influencing factor, Science Signaling is the most unknown sub -magazine.

02. The peak period of the journal was staged, and the editor -in -chief apologized for himself

In August 2018, Deric Wheler was investigated by the school's scientific research integrity office. The school's scientific research integrity office notified the Science Signaling journal author Deric Wheeler, published in the journal.

However, the withdrawal of these two papers occurred on November 9, 2021, three years later. The long 3 years in the middle. What did the editorial department do?

One of the manuscripts: The Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Axl Med;

In the email of the editor and the author in July 2021, the editor John Foley once acknowledged that "it was seriously delayed in the withdrawal of the draft", which means that in the process of nearly three years from 2018 to 2021 Under the premise of knowing the content of the paper, no action is taken.

John Foley argued for his behavior in the interview of the Retraction Watch. He believes that the content of the manuscript does not involve academic dislocation. He should use correction content as the best way, so the priority of handling this manuscript has been reduced. Immediately after, COVID-19 is popular in the world, Foley's editor-in-law is scarce and lack of avatars, and manuscript issues have been put on hold.

It wasn't until the editor of Foley realized that the author didn't seem to want to modify it, but wanted to withdraw the manuscript, which re -started the manuscript processing program.

Although John Foley has worked hard to justify and apologize for his "procrastination", what cannot be changed is that in these three years, the manuscript has been quoted 21 times (according to data from the official website of Web of Science), like The exposed AIDS Haimer's dissertation papers have misleaded the scientific community for 16 years. Does the conclusion of this paper also mislead the scholars who are quoting and even read it? Science signaling: staff homepage

03. Focus on the field of basic scientific research for 14 years

Some personal behaviors of the journal editorial committee need to be condemned, but objectively and fairly evaluate this journal still requires some data to speak.

The impact factors have been hovering in the range of 6-10, and the floating is smaller. It is expected to break through the 10 -point mark in the coming year. In the upgraded version of the Chinese Academy of Sciences 2021 Journal, the journals are listed as TOP journals in biology area 1, BioChemistry & Molecular Biology Biochemical and Molecular Biology Zone 1, Cell Biology Cell Biology 2nd Journal.

Why is Science Signaling under the name of Science, but the influencing factor is not very prominent?

It is believed that there are not a few students who have such questions. This may be mainly subject to the positioning of the journal itself. From the information of the official website, the scope of the journal's draft is biased towards basic research. Especially in the context of the "annealing" trend of signal channels in recent years, it is not easy to maintain the impact factors that can maintain the impact factors of 6 or more.

Looking at the papers last year's issue, there is indeed no suspicion of publishing the epidemic hotspot, or focusing on the basic research of the art.

Science Signaling 2021 The first 10 papers (data source web of science)

The annual number of journals has not changed much from 100-200 articles since the renamed in 2008. The contribution of the posts of Chinese scholars is about 10%, and the number of documents per year is 10-20.

Science Signaling is a traditional subscription journal with no charges. From the perspective of the number of issues, it is difficult to invest.

Finally, use "stability" to summarize Science Signaling. Whether it is the amount of posts or the quality of the article, it is indeed stable. Although there are small shortcomings, the flaws are not covered, and the journals can still maintain their authority and professionalism.

Basic scientific research is indeed a difficult hard bone, for scientists, and for journals. Journal of diligence to focus on basic field research is still worthy of admiration.

Reference link:

1. Papers on Alzheimer ’s Slapped with Expressions of Concern: https://rettractionwatch.com/2022/06/21/papers-nelzheimers-with-Expressions-ofrn/

2. BLOTS on a Field ?: https://www.science.org/Content/Potential-Fabrication-Research-IMAGES- Key-ALZHEIMERS- Disease

3. Sylvain lesné, who find aβ*56, account of image manipulation: https://www.alzForum.org/news/community-yylvain-ile-found-d56-mag-Mag-imag-imag-Mag-Mag-Mag- Med.

4.JOURNAL Information: https://www.science.org/content/page/science-signaling-mission-and-scope

5.'My egregious delay': Science journal takes more than three years to retract paper after university investigation: https://retractionwatch.com/2022/01/19/my-egregious-delay-science-journal-takes-more- Than-Three-TO-RETRACT-PAPER-University-INVESTIGATION

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