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Looking at ethics in publishing #PredatoryPublishing , #Papermills , #SellingAuthorships , #CitationManipulation , #ImpactFactors , #PeerReview @Graham_Kendall

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Fascinating article discussing special issues and how the growth of @MDPIOpenAccess and @FrontiersIn has been the reason for their exponential growth. The paper then looks at three journals from the "big five". They do not name the journals, which is a shame, but we can

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. 22 people have published more than 200 papers in 2024 (so far, we still have another six months to go) We have been doing some research on another project and saw something that we found interesting. We'd be interested to know what you think. In 2024, 22 authors (according to

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. 171 papers published in 2024 are written by the same 31 authors and all published in the same journal. Is this okay (serious question - see last question)? Yesterday we posted that 22 people had published more than 200 papers (so far) in 2024 (see ).

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. 22 people have published more than 200 papers in 2024 (so far, we still have another six months to go) We have been doing some research on another project and saw something that we found interesting. We'd be interested to know what you think. In 2024, 22 authors (according to

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. How the Big Five Academic Publishers Profit from Article Processing Charges Spoiler alert : Their revenue was over US$ 1 billion between 2015-2018 A recent paper looks at the "big 5" publishers ( @ElsevierConnect , @Sage_Publishing , @SpringerNature , @tandfonline and

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. One page paper is cited 141 times. 124 of those citations are self-citations. This 2023 paper by Kleebayoon and Wiwanitkit has been cited 141 times (which is high for a 2023 paper, well we think so - at least for a one page commentary paper). You can see the paper here:

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"Publishing negative results is good for science" | @MicrobiomDigest | @MicrobioSoc |

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"MDPI journal undergoing reevaluation at Scopus, indexing on hold" | @RetractionWatch | #MDPIPublisher | @Scopus | @Sus_MDPI |

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. Who runs this 𝕏 account and the associated web site? We have always said that we would say who is behind this 𝕏 account, and our web site, once we reached 10,000 followers. In June, due to a post going viral, we sailed past that target which, to be honest, caught us by

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. The 264 papers that Viroj Wiwanitkit has published this year and a few thoughts on one of them. For the past few days we have been looking at the most prolific authors in 2024 (see ). The most prolific author is Viroj Wiwanitkit and this link will take

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. 22 people have published more than 200 papers in 2024 (so far, we still have another six months to go) We have been doing some research on another project and saw something that we found interesting. We'd be interested to know what you think. In 2024, 22 authors (according to

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. In the last 12 days the most hyper productive authors of 2024 have all (bar one) published 20 papers. Twelve days ago we posted a tweet that received over 901K impressions (but far our most viewed tweet). It showed the authors that had published over 200 papers in 2024. You

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The article has been retracted.

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. Frontiers paper, and its generated images, are being investigated after an Expression of Concern was raised. This paper from @FrontiersIn has been getting some interest recently (it has to be recently, as it was only published on 13 Feb). You can see the paper here:

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Automatic retraction, right?

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What a curious thing to say!

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Just done some data collection on @MDPIOpenAccess . At the moment, they have 41,030 special issues open. If they published one special issue a day it will take >112 years to publish all them all. What is your view of a publisher publishing so many special issues?

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We have taken a look at the Google Scholar profile of Kumba Digdowiseiso (following the @RetractionWatch article: ). So far, in 2024, he has published (163 articles / 104 days) = 1.57 articles each day. Be interesting to see how this develops in 2024.

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. Incredible day and we have reached our target of 10,000 followers. We had the most incredible day yesterday. We started with 9,128 followers and today we have over 11,000 (11,124 at the time of writing, but it is still rising). When we started this Twitter account, in August

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New blog post: MDPI, Frontiers and Hindawi journals may be downgraded in Finland @MDPIOpenAccess , @FrontiersIn , @Hindawi

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In a tweet, Veli-Matti Karhulahti said:"Not confirmed yet but all MDPI, Frontiers & Hindawi journals planned to be erased (level 0) from Finnish academic assessment…

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Been looking at the publication record of Kumba Digdowiseiso. In 2024 (so far) he has published 163 papers. 29 of those papers have been published in the International Journal of Social Service and Research, across two issues.

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"An open dataset of article processing charges from six large scholarly publishers (2019-2023)" Still a preprint but we hope that it gets through peer review, as it will be a VERY useful resource .

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" @MDPIOpenAccess is down 30% (close to 50,000 articles) as compared with the first half of 2023; @FrontiersIn is down 29% compared with the first half of 2023 (which was already down from 2022)."

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3 LinkedIn accounts posted our X post (). All acknowledged it with a "Source" link at the end, but nothing about Twitter/our account name. One received >9,000 likes, >1,100 comments and 775 reposts. We are not happy. Feels like we have been plagiarized.

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Noticed you stole our post () and did not even bother to acknowledge. You only had to repost. We'll be kind and assume that you don't know how this platform works. Not big or clever @TimoteoBriet . Where do you want us to send the invoice to?

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22 people have published more than 200 papers in 2024.We have been doing some research on another project and saw something that we found interesting. We'd be interested to know what you think. In 2024, 22 authors @Scopus have published over 200 papers @emulenews ??? possible ?

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"Two papers retracted for plagiarizing a 50-year-old thesis" | @RetractionWatch

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"Elisabeth Bik, expert in scientific integrity: ‘We need to slow down scientific publishing’ " | @MicrobiomDigest

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Elisabeth Bik, expert in scientific integrity: ‘We need to slow down scientific publishing’

The Dutch microbiologist has been voluntarily searching for duplicate, erroneous or retouched academic images for more than 10 years and warning universities and scientific journals about it

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Very interesting book by @waltcrawford . One of the most fascinating tables is the top 11 @OpenAccess publishers in 2023. The revenue figures (to me anyway) are staggering.

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"Honorary authorship is highly prevalent in health sciences: systematic review and meta-analysis of surveys" | @SciReports

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. Yes, we are nervous We have said that we will reveal who is behind this 𝕏 (aka Twitter) account, and the accompanying web site, on the 17th Aug, .... and we will. But, we are nervous. We have been running this Twitter account (and the web site) for about six years. We

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Looking at @Scopus , here are the 11 publications that Jeffrey Beall has written (sorted by the number of times they have been cited). We note, he has written a lot more papers (about 40) on predatory publishing but these are in journals not indexed by Scopus, so have not been

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"Journal retracts 31 papers, bans authors and reviewers after losing its impact factor" | @retractionWatch | @MicrobiomDigest

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. Review Mill at MDPI Very interesting article by @maoviedogarcia , who looks at @MDPIOpenAccess . #MDPIPublisher This would make a very interesting peer reviewed article (suitably written for a scientific journal) so that this become part of the peer reviewed scientific archive.

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Tell it how it is lads 😂. Great title and fully justified if you read the paper.

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@ditlevbrodersen @MicrobiomDigest We noticed that - but have not investigated (yet)

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This is just crazy, how blatant this is.

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"Seventeen journals lose impact factors for suspected citation manipulation" | @RetractionWatch

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. How big is science’s fake-paper problem? Very interesting paper from @Richvn , writing in @Nature . Well worth a read, but these were the main points that we took away. ⭕️Over the past two decades, more than 400,000 research articles have been published that show strong

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"Preserving Academic Integrity: Combating the Proliferation of Paper Mills in Scholarly Publishing"

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. Review mills identified as a new form of peer-review fraud Tag: @ChemistryWorld , @maoviedogarcia , @robinson_julia We have been following the posts by @maoviedogarcia , who has been highlighting issues with the peer review processes of @MDPIOpenAccess (and it is a credit to

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Concerns about data integrity across 263 papers by one author

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Was sent us this paper (via DM, thank you), saying that it looks like the work #GenAI . We see that the paper had been retracted. Reasons: image duplication (tag: @MicrobiomDigest ) & undisclosed use of GenAI. Kudos to @ElsevierConnect for acting quickly

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"Google Scholar is manipulatable" on @arxiv

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Is science a pyramid scheme? The correlation between an author's position in the academic hierarchy and her scientific output per year

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Beware, this is one of those web site that once you take a look you can't get away from. It lists a set of papers that may have (probably) been at least partially generated with AI. Should be simple retractions?

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The @guardian hitting the nail on the head with this piece saying that the integrity of the scientific archive is under serious pressure. @deevybee also makes a good point: "People are building careers on the back of this tidal wave of fraudulent science" You should read this

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"Sneaked references: Fabricated reference metadata distort citation counts" This, in our view, is a very important paper. We recall reading a preprint and glad to see that it is now published. @gcabanac | @lonnibesancon

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Very good question ("How can this happen in a regular peer-review paper?"). You might imagine that a pharse buried deep in the paper might get through, but the first sentence in the introduction. We assume that @ElsevierConnect will investigate.

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🤖 So #ChatGPT wrote the first sentence of this @ElsevierConnect article. Any other parts of the article too? How come none of the coauthors, Editor-in-Chief, reviewers, typesetters noticed? How can this happen with regular peer-review?

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Thought we'd take a look at who has published the most @MDPIOpenAccess papers this year. ... and the winner is Gasbarrini, A., who has published 63 papers, in 18 journals from #MDPI 's portfolio. If we take a rough #APC of USD 2,000, that is USD 126,000. Wonder who funded that?

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. The most productive authors in 2024 and a link to their papers Background Over the past week or so, there has been a healthy discussion on highly productive authors. Our original tweet () received close to one million

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. 22 people have published more than 200 papers in 2024 (so far, we still have another six months to go) We have been doing some research on another project and saw something that we found interesting. We'd be interested to know what you think. In 2024, 22 authors (according to

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. "New criteria for special issues", just released by @DOAJplus . This will have a dramatic impact on some publishers. Few comments/thoughts: 1⃣ It would be good to see, in any special issue (of which the journal and/or publisher is a member of #DOAJ ), the Editor-in-Chief

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. @MDPIOpenAccess , @FrontiersIn and @Hindawi journals may be downgraded in Finland by the end of 2024. Here some things that sprung to mind when we read this. 1⃣ It would be useful when (and if) this comes to pass that the reasons why are given. Most people will assume that it

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Not confirmed yet but all MDPI, Frontiers & Hindawi journals planned to be erased (level 0) from Finnish academic assessment by end of 2024. Should be clear that if you're a researcher here, a high time to stop submitting/reviewing for those journals.

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"The citation black market: schemes selling fake references alarm scientists" | @DalmeetS

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We are really pleased that @RetractionWatch and @CrossrefOrg have joined forces with one benefit being that the Retraction Watch database is now freely available. Our first analysis is to look at the top ten publishers by the number of retractions. Of course, these figures have

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"‘Exhausting’: Author finds another’s name on an Elsevier book chapter she wrote" | @RetractionWatch |

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This paper is in the latest issue of the Journal of Scholarly Publishing. Looks like an interesting read.

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Number of ‘extremely productive’ authors concerns scientists | @Nature | @gvconroy | #HyperProductiveAuthors

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If you are interested in #PaperMills , here are five papers published in 2023. === 1) Fast-growing open-access journals lose impact factors Web of Science delists some 50 journals, including one of the world’s largest (2023) Science. @ScienceMagazine

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Excessive use of words like ‘commendable’ and ‘meticulous’ suggests ChatGPT has been used in thousands of scientific studies

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A London librarian has analyzed millions of articles in search of uncommon terms abused by artificial intelligence programs

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Thank you for all the kind messages of support - both public and private, since revealing who is behind this account. Operating in the open will be different but, in some ways, I believe that it will be easier as I don't have to always have an eye on hiding my identity.

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Finding the truth in science | @MicrobiomDigest | @NatureRevCancer |

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In 2023, this author has published 441 articles (that is more than one a day). 414 (93.88%) of those articles were letters. #HyperProductiveAuthors Source: Scopus (31 May 2024)

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Automatically listing senior members of departments as co-authors is highly prevalent in health sciences: meta-analysis of survey research - Scientific Reports

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. The Google Scholar profile of Sayed Mohamed Eldin shows that he publishes one paper a day. We have been tweeting about Sayed Mohamed Eldin (for example, see ). In response to one of our tweets @PaulGlazier was good enough to send us the Google Scholar

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. The 463 publications of Sayed Mohamed Eldin, all published since 2022. We have previously tweeted about Sayed Mohamed Eldin, noting that he had published 61 papers in 2022, 378 papers in 2023 and (so far) 24 papers in 2024. The main tweet was published as a blog article (see

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We recently captured all the papers that look at #PredatoryPublishingBeall 's List. This is the most cited paper: Access paper here: See more papers here:

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This is a great read from @UKSG , full of interesting facts and figures - as 2023 was a record year for retractions, mainly due to the number of #papermill papers retracted by Hindawi.

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. Frontiers paper, and its generated images, are being investigated after an Expression of Concern was raised. This paper from @FrontiersIn has been getting some interest recently (it has to be recently, as it was only published on 13 Feb). You can see the paper here:

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I took a look at the number of retracted articles, as indexed by @Scopus . The increase in 2023-2024 is expected (Hindawi being a large contributor) but even ignoring these, there has been a steady increase over the years. It will be interesting to see what happens in 2025.

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" @Scopus is broken – just look at its literature category" | @RetractionWatch |

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"Seventeen journals lose impact factors for suspected citation manipulation" | @RetractionWatch |

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. Who should pay for open-access publishing? What are the alternatives to Article Processing Charges? In an interesting paper from @scrinders , writing in @Nature , various alternative to APCs (Article Processing Charges) are discussed. Here are the highlights from the article.

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"Signs of undeclared ChatGPT use in papers mounting" Another great spot by @gcabanac . Surely, the paper has to be investigated and (possibly) retracted? @RetractionWatch

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Fraud: A Growing Threat to Academia’s Credibility - Academic Psychiatry

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"The review mills, not just (self-)plagiarism in review reports, but a step further" Great to see this paper published by @maoviedogarcia . In our view, this is an important paper as it brings to light a problem that has not really been addressed before |

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Scientific fraud: The case of the Spanish university rector should prompt change to ranking system

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The founders of Retraction Watch, an organization specialized in research misconduct, call for eliminating the incentives to manipulate metrics

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Recently collected data about @MDPIOpenAccess special issues. Here are the top ten journals with regard to how many special issues they currently have open. Is this too many? What do you think?

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See page 17&18, for the view from @MicrobiomDigest . Well worth a read.

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Is something rotten in the state of Denmark? Cross-national evidence for widespread involvement but not systematic use of questionable research practices across all fields of research

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"Publication integrity: what is it, why does it matter, how it is safeguarded and how could we do better?"| @tandfonline

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"The scientists who publish a paper every five days" | @Nature | #HyperProductiveAuthors | @Sarahho46301724 | @KevinBoyack |

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"Finland group downgrades 60 journals" | @RetractionWatch |

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We love a quirky title, and this recent paper delivers one - as well as looking at #PredatoryPublishing . #Orthodontics #OpenAccess

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@skdh Thanks for this - but we have not excluded mega-collaborations. At the moment we are reporting the raw data from Scopus.

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We are interested in finding all the articles that have checklists for predatory journals. @balrajshukla pointed us to this one (thank you), which is a great start, as it references 93 articles that provide checklists, but are there others, given that this article only focused

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. Citing non-existing texts We did not realise that citing non-existing texts was "a thing". Assuming it is a thing, what motivates people to cite non-existent articles? Okay, #AI , #LLM , #ChatGPT etc. may do it, but what is the benefit for a human author to do it? Read the

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An @ElsevierConnect article that looks how authors are being coerced into citing papers which, perhaps, are not appropriate for the paper under review.

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"Exclusive: Publisher retracts more than 450 papers from journal it acquired last year" | @RetractionWatch

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Six academics sacked for research paper fraud

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Six academics from three Thai universities have been sacked and eight others are being investigated for research paper fraud, according to the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and...

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" @ElsevierConnect investigating articles linked to controversial French researcher" | @RetractionWatch

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"Costly invite? Scientists hit with massive bills after speaking at COVID-19 ‘webinars’" by @mcatanzaro , writing in @ScienceMagazine . One of those articles where you just want a quick look, but cannot stop reading.

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Costly invite? Scientists hit with massive bills after speaking at COVID-19 ‘webinars’

Researchers are fighting back against a mysterious conference organizer and an arbitration court that may not exist

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Suspicious phrases in peer reviews point to referees gaming the system

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Suspicious phrases in peer reviews point to referees gaming the system

Hundreds of scientific papers bear signs of reviewers using templates to quickly churn out reports for personal gain

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Should We Publish Fewer Papers?

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We note on @PubPeer that @ElsevierConnect had responded to your tweet, saying that they were investigating this with the authors and editors. Surely, the conversation is an easy one. Editor: Did you use ChatGPT? Authors: Yes Editor: Did you declare its use? Authors: No

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🤖 So #ChatGPT wrote the first sentence of this @ElsevierConnect article. Any other parts of the article too? How come none of the coauthors, Editor-in-Chief, reviewers, typesetters noticed? How can this happen with regular peer-review?

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@punconomics a) We don't want to call out people too early, b) We would like to do some more DD, c) As you say, it's there anyway, so people can look if they want and d) people might follow us if they think we will post more (hint, hint @punconomics )

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"Predatory journals: How to recognise and keep clear!" | @Sage_Publishing | #PredatoryPublishing

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. @MDPI to investigate possible #papermill activity #MDPIPublisher Good to see that @MDPIOpenAccess are investigating potential #papermill activity and #citation misconduct. Perhaps this has come about due to the excellent work of @maoviedogarcia . If it is due to the

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Dealing with Research Paper Mills, Tortured Phrases, and Data Fabrication and Falsification in Scientific Papers

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. Is there a good reason for a journal to have 803 editors, but has only published five papers in three years? For reasons we won't bore you with now, we were looking at Frontiers in Antennas and Propagation, a @FrontiersIn journal. What struck us is that the journal has 803

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Good work. Just a shame you just copied our content without giving us proper credit (in our mind a shortened LinkedIn link does not really do it - you may disagree). And you only credited us more fully in a comment after we called you out. Perhaps it was an oversight, which we

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Thanks Publishing with Integrity @fake_journals for this Tweet which I reposted on my LinkedIn and received over 2,600,000 impressions.

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. Three papers in one issue of Dental, Oral and Maxillofacial Research has 474 references, they are exactly the same across all three papers and 381 are self-citations (so 1143 self citations in the three papers) The image shows three papers. Each paper is about 2-3 pages long,

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. Guest editor of an MDPI special issue is author of almost half of the papers in the special issue. We recently saw a post from @clementFFF (see ) where it was noted that a guest editor to an @MDPIOpenAccess special issue had seven papers published by one

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@RemoteSens_MDPI Guest Editor "Fuzhong Weng" is co-authoring 7/15 articles is this special issue. ➡️ ~47% of total papers. This is not in agreement with your ethical chart, sorry 🤷‍♂️ ...

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Intl Jnl of Molecular Sciences ( @MDPIOpenAccess ) has 3,059 special issues open for submissions. The journal has 20 EICs. How do 20 people look after so many SIs? Not only the reviewing but approving them? On average they are looking after 152 SIs each.

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He was a rising star of academia with multiple papers. He was also a cat

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He was a rising star of academia with multiple papers. He was also a cat

Researcher creates fake profile for pet to expose flaws in Google Scholar website that allow scientists to fraudulently boost their credibility

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"Make peer review great (again?)"

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Incredible day - thank you

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