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There is a #papermill at Shahid Beheshti Uni Med Sci, Tehran. Some of the customers later pop up at Western universities. It is very possible that Ali Akbar Velayati, senior adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader in international affairs, is running the show. A 🧵.

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This thread will expose some notable connections of the embattled Spanish "chemist" Rafael Luque. It is a call to action to start rooting out the fraud network. It would be a mistake to treat Luque as a single funny case. Read about Luque here:

One of the world’s most cited scientists, Rafael Luque, suspended without pay for 13 years

The prolific chemist, who has published a study every 37 hours this year, has been sanctioned by the University of Córdoba over his research work for other institutions in Russia and Saudi Arabia

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A texbook case of coercive citation manipulation means, by a certain scholar from the University of Queensland. There are much more stuff like this in @MDPIOpenAccess journals, literally dozens in 2H 2022. Similar papers from 2023 exist, but the reviews are closed.

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If local authorities decide to open a landfill in your backyard, you blame them, and not the incoming flies.

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Why is there more outrage that Elsevier didn't catch it than that the authors would submit such work?

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This is way more than sufficient to put a "predatory" label on an entire journal.

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. @MicrobiomDigest , you'll certainly enjoy this masterpiece reviewed within 2 days! What a poetry!

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SOS! Help! We have an outbreak of Rabiee here!

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Next we go to Awais Ahmad, and this tweet is an illustration. Ahmad was a student of Luque in Cordoba.

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It's 2024, and @ElsevierConnect is still publishing phrase-torturing exercises from well-known phrase-torturers.

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There are some puzzling names among the 1k+ authors of one of the "Global Burden of Disease" studies. - Javad Sharifi-Rad - Mohammad Reza Saeb - Khalid Mehmood - Andrey N Birko - Ebrahim Mostafavi I am quite curious about their contribution.

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And, it seems, this is exactly how Ahmad "represented the values" of 383FQM (Luque's group in Cordoba).

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I'll stop here. This thread could be shorter, or even never appear, if people paid attention to what was going on. It was all certainly preventable before 2020. It may be preventable even now. But when I think about the amount of effort needed, I'm scared.

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@spy_sci @MicrobiomDigest @Thatsregrettab1 @author_for_sale PubPeer link:

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...and an editor in quite some places, all without a doctoral degree.

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Chemosphere (Pornosphere?) is "on hold" in WoS for over a year now. @Clarivate , please, please, delist it already.

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This is from an interesting collaboration of Luque, One notable author is Dmitry O. Bokov, from Sechenov Medical University in Moscow. Bokov is nominally a food chemist, but has "written" articles on nearly everything.

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What the heck is this acceptance rate, eh?

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Anh Tuan Hoang, read about him and Luque here:

Schneider Shorts 27.01.2023 – The Biggest Fraudster of All

Schneider Shorts 27.01.2023 – Michigan professor out after fraud findings, Elsevier’s recruits Vietnam’s most-cited scholar as EiC, much-retracted gynecologist from Egypt loses Ph…

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Philippe Garrigues, the editor-in-chief of Environmental Science and Pollution Research, acts as "responsible editor" for 1600+ publications per year. Moving on, nothing to see here.

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Read about Bokov and his part of the network here, by @nickwizzo and Alex Magazinov.

The incredible collaborations of Renaissance men and women

Nick Wise and Alexander Magazinov on the authorships-for-sale market on social media. Merely $700 for the 7th position on some paper way outside your expertise!

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Imagine yourself a papermill owner with a sizeable backlog of publications. How do you deal with it? You run a special issue, of course! @ElsevierConnect won't ever bother to check the guest editors' background.

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Looking at Bokov's Dimensions profile: ❗ Pro-inflammatory cytokines ❗ Proton exchange membrane fuel cells ❗ Mixed convection of water-silver nanofluid ❗ Adversarial networks ❗ Methyl green removal ❗ Mobile based aptasensors ❗ CAR-T cells

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Or this one. Luque is onboard.

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8️⃣ Systematic boosting of citations of specific authors, with references that are not related to the content or do not match the text.

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But that's not all for that paper, there is Afshin Davarpanah, a PubPeer star!

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@Andrew_Akbashev "Scientists are not afraid to discuss science!" Even this assertion appears to be somewhat conditional nowadays. "The raw data is confidential." "Your request is deemed not reasonable." "Let's discuss the issue you raised privately via email. (I won't respond.)" Familiar?

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"What was Hoang doing in Spain? Meeting the Highly Cited Researcher and the king of papermilling citation-trading cheaters, Rafael Luque..." Perhaps this is the key?

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And this is an outright fake by Hagfeldt, sourced in Xi'an Jiaotong university, - surprise! - the same place where Luque held a guest position around 2017-2019.

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It is unclear if Ahmad is still affiliated with Cordoba. But this is a possibility, even after Luque's suspension. Check here:

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Hey @SpringerNature , do you still approve of Rafal Marszalek's performance as @SciReports ' EiC? With the papermilling inflow as inexhaustible as ever?

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Ugh. @SciReports issues a Correction for a paper with authors from 11 different affilations in 7 countries, that appears to have copied images from another paper and with impossible 'drunk' plots like these. Likely #PaperMill - should be retracted.

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Some subplots may well have slipped out of my narrative, for which I apologize. Remember this is an open call. Discover, report, help the sleuths root the scam out.

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@Spottingthespot @UniLUT This non-university has explicitly opted out from the national research integrity framework (TENK). Speaks volumes of them.

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The end. Tagging @MicrobiomDigest @nickwizzo @fxcoudert @gcabanac @SmutClyde @Thatsregrettab1 @deevybee

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And the editor is a quantum theoretician / cosmologist. Which makes him perfectly qualified to handle a paper on theoretical foundations of homeopathy, lol.

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#ImageForensics , materials science edition. @PubPeer already has some of the duplications, but not all of them! cc @MicrobiomDigest

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Are you freaking serious, @ElsevierConnect ? What next journal will you acquire? Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine. A cyclophosphamide-induced immunosuppression Swiss Albino mouse model unveils a potential role for cow urine distillate as a feed additive.

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What is interesting, both Luque and Len were at the same time (and probably still are) on the editorial board of Scientific Reports. We'll get back to it in a minute.

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P.S. A graphical representation of this thread might be useful. I welcome anyone who has time for it.

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"Prof Sillanpää has been recognised by Clarivate Analytics as a Highly Cited Researcher since 2017."

Prof Mika Sillanpää - University of Johannesburg

Prof Mika Sillanpää is a distinguished scholar working in the areas of Environmental Engineering, Green Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Water Treatment, and Environmental Analysis.

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@gcabanac @MDPIOpenAccess @PubPeer @RetractionWatch @C0PE Scrutiny is needed over each author of this piece and over their entire network. However, no one from the publishing industry is going to do that. And the sleuthing community is too small to call out every crook.

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With both Anh Tuan Hoang and Changhe Li already in the picture, here is a hint that they are not strangers to each other: But we diverged.

Recent Advances in Machine Learning Research for Nanofluid-Based Heat Transfer in Renewable Energy...

Nanofluids have gained significant popularity in the field of sustainable and renewable energy systems. The heat transfer capacity of the working fluid has a huge impact on the efficiency of the...

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Sharifi-Rad is a "discoverer" of some curious medical phenomena such as *peevish inside disorder* and *fly slack*.

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A quick read of the T&F microbiome paper shows it contains some unexpected phrases: * without germ mice = germ-free mice * peevish inside disorder = irritable bowel syndrome * fly slack = jet lag Not wordings you would expect from microbiome researchers.

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Someone may want to have a look at this article by Ramakrishna, Arjmand and Anders Hagfeldt, the rector / vice chancellor of Uppsala University and yet another holder of the "highly cited" title.

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The author of this strange MDPI paper, Helene Banoun, has recorded a common paper with Sajad Karampoor, a papermiller who in turn has common papers with Dmitry Bokov and Maria Jade Catalan Opulencia. cc @SmutClyde @nickwizzo

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Poor editorial oversight at @MDPIOpenAccess allows an "independent researcher" to publish a paper that re-defines what gene therapy is. A 'scientific' journal provides science deniers a published reference to their broken claims, making our job harder.

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It will take some time to write it, so please stay tuned.

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More retractions in Journal of Energy Storage. Zhixiong Li @PolitechnikaOpo is on all four of them. His colleague Grzegorz M Królczyk is on two. Paolo Gardoni @MAE_Center @UofIllinois is also on two. Per my sources, the institutions are silent.

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Hello @SpringerNature . Are you sure that Seeram Ramakrishna is qualified to be Editor-in-Chief of Materials Circular Economy? 19 @PubPeer entries are not reassuring... 🧵

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@nierengarten6 @Richvn The bids have risen substantially since a while ago, it seems.

You will be paid US $500-800 for each paper

“Or The author can also put your name to the article to increase your academic popularity, such as adding your name to the second or third author.”

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Next, a coproduction of Luque and one Mika Sillanpää.

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Hoang was hired by Elsevier as one of the three senior co-editors of Fuel late last year or early this year. But he has already vacated this position. Nonetheless, his short tenure was enough to have a number of Luque's articles accepted.

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@MicrobiomDigest @manuelansede Those envious mediocrities...

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This is a piece of excellent science by dr. Mohammad Arjmand, School of Engineering, University of British Columbia.

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Courtesy of Javad Sharifi-Rad. Already on PubPeer. But it seems worse than that. All the underlined stuff should perhaps be written differently, but I can't figure out correct wording in many cases. @gcabanac @MicrobiomDigest @deevybee @nickwizzo

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Papermilling pays off. In Poland, a papermill client Grzegorz Królczyk, with several retractions, is appointed as a chairman of the Innovation Council of the Ministry of Science.

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Proszę @MNiSW_GOV__PL powiedzieć, czy jest to nowa definicja innowacji w Polskie: kupowanie autorstwa artykułów naukowych od irańczyków, saudyjczyków i chińczyków. Bo właśnie tym Pan Królczyk i zajmuje się. Tutaj ogłoszenie o powołaniu Rady:

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2 days. Nothing is surprising in 2023.

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Also an author of multiple review papers on anything and everything, usually with 10+ authors spread around the globe. And shaky citations to himself. Currently under fire from @MicrobiomDigest .

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This is a gentle ping @PubPeer . Are you aware of a bug that the post doesn't render correctly at submission, including images, markdown and links? As a workaround, you have to press edit, then send your post again.

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This typo is everything you need to know about the entire nanofluid "science".

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Ariful Ahsan has two PubPeer entries. But the other one is remarkable too. It is milled by none other but Ahmed Esmail Shalan!

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@mumumouse2 Lotfi-freaking-Aleya!!!111 The best buddy of monsieur Philippe Garrigues!

Do papermillers dream of eclectic journals?

“I focus on the sprawling parody literature devoted to the three Es of Energy, Economy and the Environment. Together they […] freeload on the authentic literature on energy efficiency a…

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@spy_sci @MicrobiomDigest @Thatsregrettab1 @author_for_sale One can't make this up. A PubPeer post devoted to 10.3390/metabo13020183 exposes an extorted reference 245. Elham Ahmadian and Aziz Eftekhari are there. But there is also - surprise! - Rovshan Khalilov, and we've certainly seen him previously.

Taras Persidskyy and Arik of Negev, Shahed Hunters

“He has embarked on a path of unacceptable slander, not only against me, but also against my colleagues (Prof. Oleg Smutok, Prof. Arnold Kiv, Prof. Vladimir Solovyov). We have all the necessa…

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And 40+ PubPeer hits.

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Again, For Better Science is your source here 😉

When I’m citing you, will you answer too?

What do moth pheromones on one side have to do with cancer research, petrochemistry, materials science, e-commerce, psychology, forestry and gynaecology on the other? They are separated by just one…

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@Olive_Free @ElsevierPhysics Results in Physics is a non-journal, to begin with. It is being run by the same gang as another non-journal Chaos, Solitons and Fractals. That latter one came under fire in 2008. Back then, Elsevier pretended to act upon and fired El Naschie, but nothing like a deep overhaul.

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. @el_pais you could have done a better factchecking job. "Publish or die" is a tortured phrase. The correct one is "publish or perish". The number of Hindawi retractions is now over 7000, not 1700.

Public funds being swallowed up by scientific journals with dubious articles

An analysis suggests that some academic publishers have multiplied their income thanks to accepting trivial studies en masse

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At least, a recent record shows him a PhD student in Aberystwyth University, UK.

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And here Doustkhah taking advantage of the crazy coordination polymer papermill discovered by @SmutClyde Not a single instance!

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@MicrobiomDigest The word "meticulously" should alone warrant a swift kick.

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The next one whom we see on that MOF-heat-transfer paper is Seeram Ramakrishna. Who also appears to have ties to Mohammad Arjmand, another "guest editor" of the scam "special issue" in Journal of Energy Storage.

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And a customer of Masoud Afrand's papermilling enterprise. It is a "special issue" edited by Afrand where the paper from the previous post was published. Read about that shameless "special issue" here:

Maybe stop accepting submissions, Herr Prof Dr Sauer?

Who needs science if you can have a 75 paper strong special edition by Afrand and Karimi? A guest post by Alexander Magazinov.

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@deadneanderthal @MicrobiomDigest @Spottingthespot @kaveh1000 @JAByrneSci @fake_journals @ArbitraryEffect @gcabanac @OxygenIvan @mumumouse2 Good points have been raised in the below referenced post - just think of a sleuth as a special type of referee. And I agree.

The Costs of Knowledge: scientists want their cut on the scam

Publishers won’t pay YOU for peer review.

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Another product of Luque and Rabiee, with citation delivery to the latter is here: Another notable author is Francis Verpoort.

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Most of the "hydrogen storage" "scientific literature" is stupid shit, plain fraud, or (typically) both. "Green" discourse is hijacked by all kinds of corrupt butts.

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A review of hydrogen storage materials & techniques with an AI-generated graphical abstract. I assume the paper itself was also reviewed to the same high standard. "Nacoing Enactouns" anyone? Or perhaps you're more interested in "Scanling Empigirore"?

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As if we haven't had enough phrase-torturing plagiarists as guest editors. Right, @SpringerNature ?

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Call for papers. Advancements in Cybersecurity and Privacy: Emerging Challenges and Solutions at Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Engineering and Architecture @uqu_edu Submit now:

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Reported here:

Schneider Shorts 26.08.2022 – Fraudulent Entity

Schneider Shorts 26.08.2022 – why an entire special issue got retracted, why Science editor won’t retract papers for fraud alone, with other amazing heroes of research integrity, a Swed…

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Below is yet another piece to have a look at. It features Luque and Md. Ariful Ahsan.

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Seyed Mohammad Sajadi from Iraq, nominally a phytochemist / nutrition expert, yet churning out papers on heat transfer topics. Sajadi is one of the most reliable citation delivery boys for Yu-Ming Chu and Changhe Li, like here:

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Seeram Ramakrishna. In 2024. @BioMedCentral , @SpringerNature , what the heck is wrong with you?

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Call for papers! #BMCChem welcomes submissions to its new Collection on 'Drug delivery systems' , Guest Edited by Jayanta Kumar Patra and Seeram Ramakrishna. To find out more visit:

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"Mohammad Ali Zolfigol is an Iranian professor of chemistry and current Minister of Science, Research and Technology, since August 25, 2021." No less.

Mohammad Ali Zolfigol - Wikipedia

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@mumumouse2 No, of course. This is supposed to show transmittance as a function of wavenumber. The plot cannot backtrack.

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This is the case that can be straightforwardly escalated to @C0PE . @MicrobiomDigest , are you going to follow up on this? If not, I can get someone else to act.

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The @IEEEorg Editor in Chief wrote me back: "I am not interested who you are. I do not need to tell you what is justified. We do not deal with anonymous allegations or allegations coming from non-institutional email addresses" (I write from my gmail address; I am not employed).

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Read about Shalan here:

The One-Man Papermill

“No, none of my data is forged.” – Ahmed Esmail Shalan

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There are many posts on PubPeer flagging inappropriate citations to Li and Chu.

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Hey @Clarivate , whoever approved this decision should be fired, named and shamed. The entire decision chain.

Mohammed Al-Amr 🇵🇸

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After a year, @Hindawi 's BioMed Research International has been reindexed in the @ClarivateAG Web of Science. It will also receive a new Impact Factor this summer.

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Hi @SpringerNature , are you sure that the content of this retraction note is accurate? I don't think this journal has run even a single special issue in quite a while.

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It is unclear to which (if any) of the so many institutions this Finnish professor is affiliated.

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My 200 tögrög to this story. It's Xi'an Jiaotong, one of the least surprising places from where it could come. Several stories of fraud coming from Xi'an Jiaotong are already known - featuring, for example, 🤡 Anders Hagfeldt 🤡 Rafael Luque 🤡 Omid Mahian

Dr Charlotte Houldcroft is on maternity leave

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Erm, how did Figure 1 get past a peer reviewer?! H/T @aero_anna

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Here, Elsevier makes a proud announcement of a new SPECIAL ISSUE, edited by Masoud Afrand, Mohammad Arjmand, and Cong Qi. I am curious about Elsevier's vetting processes through which this SI was approved.

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Back to MOF-heat-transfer again, we also notice Navid Rabiee, who is not only an author, but also the recipient of many irrelevant citations. Rabiee is remarkable, because he is a bridge between Luque and Thomas J. Webster!

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@Thatsregrettab1 What is exactly the scenario? If you are trying to remove a label from an image of YOUR OWN experiment, you probably also have the raw image without a label, to which you can go back. If you are using a stolen or unrelated image, then you have to deal with the labels creatively.

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On the same "cursed" paper one also finds Florian Stadler. For Better Science knows him, too!

Epileptic spasms of tics and glitches in Krautrock diffractograms

Smut Clyde chases free radicals in a German-run lab in China

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@deevybee @WileyGlobal @Hindawi The competence of @Hindawi employees is the key to revitalization, isn't it? If so, there is little hope. Am I right, @catmacOA ?

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@ClearSkiesAdam I won't be surprised if the actual fraction is about 1 in 5, or even 1 in 4.

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And how has this garbage got accepted there? Luque? Len? We can only guess.

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@wool_yeah

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This didn't age well...

Frontiers - Oncology

@FrontOncology

2 years

📣 Read more about AR-NK cell’s therapeutic potential for treating solid tumors in this review "CAR-NK Cell: A New Paradigm in Tumor #Immunotherapy " 👨‍⚕️👩‍⚕️ Faroogh Marofi et al Read here 👉 #CancerTreatment #microenvironment

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Read about Webster on For Better Science, too!

Thomas Webster to save the world with COVID-19 nanoparticles

The world is in the grip of COVID-19 pandemic. Thousands dead, infection rates explode, nations in lockdown. Perfect timing for troll scientists to offer their bullshit cures. Like Thomas Webster o…

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Christophe Len.

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Sure. That would be a useful idea around 2003, or maybe not even back then. Also my prediction: the rule will change little if anything at all. "The editor reviewed the matter and found the citation request well-justified."

Dr Yolanda Perez

@yolandapereznmr

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This is new for a review request in MDPI: "We discourage reviewers from recommending citation of their own work when not clearly necessary to improve the quality of the manuscript under review. State in your comments to the editor if you recommend citation of your own work.."👏

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Verpoort carries a number of affiliations, among them is "National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University." Which is a thin, yet visible, trail (via Mikhail A. Sheremet) to the magnetohydrodynamics guru Ali Jawad Chamkha.

Bottom of the barrel: Nanofluids & Chamkha

“Did you know that Chamkha is “Ranked in the World’s Top 0.02267% Scientist”? Or that he “Completed all degrees in a record time of five years”?” – Maarten…

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