The revelation that a journal had apparently accepted a nonsensical computer-generated paper submitted by hoaxers has led to the resignation of the publication’s editor-in-chief.
, a health information scientist at the University of Pittsburgh, resigned yesterday from after being contacted by a reporter from asking for his comments on the hoax.
“I never saw the paper,” says Parmanto. “It’s a breakdown in the process.”
Mahmood Alam, director of publications with , which runs the journal, said in an email to Â鶹´«Ã½ yesterday that staff pretended to accept the paper in order to find out the hoaxers’ identities.
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Parmanto says that he first learned of this explanation from Alam yesterday. In his resignation letter, Parmanto says that he suggested that all editorial decisions in future must be taken by scientific editors, rather than Bentham staff.
