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Crowd-Sourcing the Clones: A New Kind of Peer Review?

Authors :
Fox, Cynthia
Source :
Bioscience Technology; 5/30/2013, p1-4, 4p, 1 Color Photograph
Publication Year :
2013

Abstract

The article presents an astronomical leap in the number of visits "PubPeer" received in their post-publication peer-review website after scientists anonymously tweeted they found error in figure replications in a recent Cell paper which described the first successful cloning of human cells. It compares the situation to be similar to that in 2004-2205 when South Korean scientist Woo Suk Hwang claimed to have cloned the first human cells where anonymous commenters discovered figure replications.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
15487652
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Bioscience Technology
Publication Type :
Periodical
Accession number :
89636064