Peer review ‘presiding over collapse’ of medical scholarship

Study claims peer review does not maintain standards in academic publishing

Peer review is “presiding over the collapse” of medical scholarship and other disciplines should “take note” to avoid going down a similar path, a study has claimed.

In a paper on the gaming of citation and authorship in academic journals, Stuart Macdonald, a professor at the University of Leicester, argued that peer review no longer maintains standards in academic publishing.