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Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published | Peer review and scientific publishing
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Such studies steer drug development, shape medical practice, underpin government policies and inform geopolitical strategies, even estimates of fatalities in bloody military campaigns, such as Israel’s assault on Gaza. Today, following the dramatic expansion of science and publishing practices pioneered by the press baron Robert Maxwell, tens of thousands of scientific journals put out millions of papers annually. Analysis for the Guardian by Gordon Rogers, the lead data scientist at Clarivate, an analytics company, shows that the number of research studies indexed on the firm’s Web of Science database rose by 48%, from 1.71m to 2.53m, between 2015 and 2024.
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