The Cochrane Collaboration aims to improve the integrity of medical evidence by excluding suspect studies and creating tools to identify problematic trials. Various publishers are collaborating to share data pertinent to combating fraud, aided by technology startups like Scitility's Argos. Despite these efforts, experts like Byrne and Stern express concern that the existing for-profit model of publishing, with its inherent biases, poses substantial barriers to clean up academic literature. They advocate for a shift to viewing journals as public utilities and making peer-review a scholarly product worthy of funding.
The fight against paper mills remains a challenge due to the booming demand for academic papers, complicating efforts to maintain research integrity.
We should pay for transparent and rigorous quality-control mechanisms in publishing rather than incentivizing journals solely for accepting papers.
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