Extra Credit 1

Publish or perish was the main topic of this discussion. Which provides an interesting question to the ethics of researchers and their published works. It has been found that there have been many peer review scams that leave many researchers feeling the pressure to publish so that they don't perish as a researcher. As retractions of papers are on the rise, more and more researchers are getting caught by peer reviewing their own work. This manipulation of publishing is harmful and not ethical to the research community. Especially when journals often fail to alert readers that they are reading retracted content. So a reader could be reading articles that they think are 'scholarly journals' but because they were not peer reviewed by someone else than the original author, they can be obtaining information that is wrong or made up.

The biggest problem with these retractions is that the information in the scholarly articles are filled with falsification and fabrication. Which technically makes these papers illegitimate. The biggest way these researchers get caught is for making up data. There have been many papers that have been retracted because of this misconduct in researcher's articles. Hopefully there will soon be an end to this fabrication and falsification of research papers due to an increase of these researchers facing jail time because of their misconduct online.

Personally, I believe it is very important to in force the rules on this matter because it hurts the education and the research of many. If there is a way to implement these rules and have a strong out come there could be a huge change in research and new research articles could be 100% reliable. As a college student, I find these papers very valuable. It is very important that research remains to have quality and quantity.

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