At another press briefing this afternoon in Washington, D.C., Science editor Donald Kennedy said that in their phone call, Hwang and Schatten told editors that the data in three areas--cell surface marking, DNA fingerprinting, and teratoma formation-- could not be trusted".
Then human editors recheck the data.
The respondents included both writers and editors, and the data collection instrument comprised a mix of structured and unstructured questions.
First, the reasons that are associated with the review process of the journals such as biased attitude and lack of trust among reviewers and editors on the data generated in their countries.
Ms. Royle, who had been at The Journal News in 2006 when the newspaper published similar data, without mapping it or providing street numbers, said that editors discussed publishing the data in at least three meetings.
After publication of this article (Fernandez et al., BMC Genomics 2011, 12 604) it was brought to the Editors' attention that the data generated by the first author, Ariel Fernandez, seemed anomalous.
The metadata editor, which allows the data to be classified on the catalog, provides many wizards and helpers to help the editors to create valid metadata.
In addition, to avoid a systematic bias in data editor pairs, we regularly rotate the data editor dyad configurations.
So you're telling the local editor, here is the data, here are the business needs of our audience," he said.
The BBC's economics editor, Stephanie Flanders, describes the data as being "all over the place lately".
