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Judging Evidence Quality
Sting operation (publishing)
Also called sting operation
A sting operation is a deliberate test submitting a flawed or fabricated paper to check whether a journal's peer review process actually catches it, the most well-known example (Bohannon, 2013) exposed widespread acceptance of a deliberately flawed paper across many open access journals.
In context
You'll usually need this when explaining the evidence base behind concerns about weak peer review at certain journals.