Editors of higher education journal coauthor editorial with fake references
Taylor & Francis is investigating an article in one of its journals after the editors published an editorial about academic freedom that contains multiple fake references and citation errors. In May, Anastasia Christou and Steve Lambert, coeditors of Journal of Higher and Further Education (JHFE), published an opinion piece about attacks on academic freedom and … Continue reading Editors of…
Taylor & Francis, a higher education journal publisher, is investigating an editorial published in their journal, Journal of Higher and Further Education (JHFE). Coeditors Anastasia Christou and Steve Lambert, along with deputy editor Rosalind Latiner Raby, coauthored the editorial about academic freedom. Of the 31 references, at least nine are nonexistent or contain incorrect information.
The editorial also has numerous citation errors. The journal's publishing ethics and integrity team is investigating the concerns raised but has not provided further details. Several of the cited researchers claim they did not write the attributed papers and have never published in JHFE. Some reference links lead to non-existent articles, while others connect to articles by different authors.
The editorial also paraphrases real articles with incorrect attributions. This is not the first time JHFE has been reported for having fake references; in March, a librarian found 12 out of 14 references in a Springer Nature paper did not exist.
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