{"id":20555,"date":"2022-09-03T08:16:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T06:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=20555"},"modified":"2022-09-23T16:26:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T14:26:38","slug":"so-many-asthma-papers-under-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2022\/09\/so-many-asthma-papers-under-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"So many asthma papers under fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As an avid PubPeer reader, I found a\u00a0 new\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/pubpeer.com\/publications\/FEC27BC676B1170A764987ADF4CAE1\">entry\u00a0 by Elisabeth Bik<\/a> recently about <a href=\"https:\/\/de.linkedin.com\/in\/andreas-pahl-a9b6004\">Andreas Pahl <\/a>of <a href=\"https:\/\/heidelberg-pharma.com\/de\/unternehmen\/vorstand\">Heidelberg Pharma<\/a> who has already one retracted and several more papers under <a href=\"https:\/\/pubpeer.com\/search?q=Pahl+andreas\">scrutiny<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately there are now also many asthma trash papers from paper mills. Another example was identified by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gcabanac\">@gcabanac<\/a>, <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">distributed by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/deevybee\/status\/1565594241019027456\">@deevybee<\/a> and published at <a href=\"https:\/\/pubpeer.com\/publications\/FA9EC3A2916659B789B21C61DB273A\">Pubpeer<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 77\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">In total there are 386 asthma entries at PubPeer. What is\u00a0 really happening in this field? When I started the field there was just one misconduct case &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ranjit_Chandra\">Ranjit Kumar Chandra<\/a>. That&#8217;s an increase from 1 to 386&#8230;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>What makes it even more complicated that there is no border anymore to predatory journals if also respected scientists drop their names at predatory journals.\u00a0 Only recently I received an email addressed to one of my former technical assistants as &#8220;professor&#8221; inviting her to send a paper&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bildschirmfoto-2022-09-07-um-09.25.57.jpg\" rel=\"key\" data-rel=\"key-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-20628\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bildschirmfoto-2022-09-07-um-09.25.57-620x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bildschirmfoto-2022-09-07-um-09.25.57-620x195.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bildschirmfoto-2022-09-07-um-09.25.57.jpg 697w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 15.06.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an avid PubPeer reader, I found a\u00a0 new\u00a0 entry\u00a0 by Elisabeth Bik recently about Andreas Pahl of Heidelberg Pharma who has already one retracted and several more papers under scrutiny. Unfortunately there are now also many asthma trash papers from paper mills. Another example was identified by @gcabanac, distributed by @deevybee and published at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2022\/09\/so-many-asthma-papers-under-fire\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">So many asthma papers under fire<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,9],"tags":[3899,3905,3901,3903,3906,3900,3910,3904,248,96,3162,2594,218],"class_list":["post-20555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asthma-allergy","category-philosophy-of-science","category-computer-software","tag-andreas-pahl","tag-enrico-heffler","tag-fahimuddin-shaik","tag-mohammed-yasin-ali","tag-ranjit-kumar-chandra","tag-syed-musthak-ahmed","tag-vinit-kumar-gunjan","tag-walter-canonica","tag-journal","tag-misconduct","tag-predatory","tag-publication","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20555"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20660,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20555\/revisions\/20660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}