The dirty dozen of 4OR

Abstract

This is the traditional triennial note used by the Editors to give the readers of 4OR information on the state of the journal and its future. In the three years that have passed since the last editorial note (Liberti et al. in 4OR 10(1):1-13, 2012), three volumes (each containing four issues) of the journal have been published:

Sweet sixteen

“…Delinquents have however a fertile imagination. Liberti et al (2015) described a number of attempts that threatened the journal's scientific integrity, including hacking the electronic submission systems, tricking the refereeing process, or selling the authorship of accepted publications.…”

A brand new cheating attempt: a case of usurped identity

“…In recent years, most publishers adopted plagiarism detection tools to pre-process all submissions, which made the plagiarists life less easy. However, other methods have been developed that threaten the journals' scientific integrity, including hacking the electronic submission systems, tricking the refereeing process, or selling the authorship of accepted publications, as reported in the recent 4OR editorial Liberti et al (2015). A new trick that was recently attempted is reported in the next section.…”