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An antitrust lawsuit was filed against 6 largest publishers. 3 reasons: no compensation for peer review; no competition between publishers due to single submission rule, and restrictions on sharing the research&publishers' property rights over manuscripts. lieffcabraser.com/antitrust/acad…

Papers get retracted only if people read them, but most papers don't get read much. So, how many papers would get retracted if people actually read them? This paper estimates 10-100K embopress.org/doi/full/10.10…

Deutsche Bahn train delays because it doesn't exist

Open letter from a group of sleuths re problems with editors/papers at Scientific Reports deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/10/an-ope… They've published 23K papers in 2024 with APC of £2090, raising £48 million from this journal alone, so should be able to put resource into cleaning this up.

The punishment for science misconduct is …. nothing. All these men are still running labs / paid professors.

It takes many years to build a journal's reputation but only one year to ruin it. This is the case with the J. of Psycholinguistic Research. Since 2023, the journal has been targeted by various paper mills. A new blog post by Dorothy Bishop about the issue. deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/10/what-i…

I'm very pleased to give a talk on "Combatting Fake Science: Current State and Future Challenges: at DFZB in Leipzig. The full program of the seminar is here dbfz.de/en/events/work…

Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now has more than 300 entries! The database was created in May 2022 with just over 100 entries. Regular updates suggest that around 70 new clones are created annually. retractionwatch.com/the-retraction… #hijackedjournals

If you are at #EPH2024, you are welcome to our session "Evolving landscape of scientific publishing practices" (15 Nov, at 11-45, room 1.15). I will talk about the challenges of paper mills, how they work and what can (or cannot) be done. #papermills

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Freie Universität Berlin will host the Week of Good Scientific Practice 2024 from November 25 to 29. I’ll be delighted to give a talk on paper mills and fake journals on November 27 at 10:30. Location: Seminar Center - Rost- und Silberlaube, Room L116. fu-berlin.de/sites/gwp/wdgw…

I’m interested in seeing how #papermills are legitimized and the spillover effects of their activities. One paper mill established an association to promote reforms, disseminate research results, analyze legislation of the scientific field, etc. This is really wild and dangerous

My new post for Retraction Watch on a new type of hijacking scam targeting 13 journals of major publishers. Detecting the original journal is challenging due to the identical webpage designs. Be aware and find details here retractionwatch.com/2024/11/25/exc… #hijackedjournals

I moved to another social media where the sky is blue. Follow me there to learn more about the research integrity Advent Calendar. I post every day a new case to highlight problems and inconsistencies in academic papers and scientific journals. papermills.tilda.ws/advent

Happy Advent!🎄Day 10. This is a special 10th case on a special day for me due to my Nature's 10 award (nature.com/articles/d4158…). You can train your skills to become a sleuth yourself. #fraudbuster papermills.tilda.ws/advent -all cases Days 1-10 papermills.tilda.ws/advent10 -case Day 10

Betrug, Bestechung und Fälschungen in der Forschung. Piotr Heller hat mit Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social gesprochen, die Fehlverhalten in der Wissenschaft aufdeckt. Joachim Mueller-Jung fragt sich, wie sehr schwarze Forscherschafe dem Fortschritt schaden #Podcast faz.net/podcasts/f-a-z…

Die Ökonomin Anna Abalkina deckt Betrug in der Wissenschaft auf. Dafür wurde sie ausgezeichnet. Hier erzählt sie von gefälschten Daten, käuflichen Experten – und Kollegen, die nicht mehr grüßen. faz.net/aktuell/wissen…

An advent calendar by Anna Abalkina about publishing misconduct. papermills.tilda.ws/advent

I'm delighted to share our opinion on #papermills published in Nature. Science is flooded with papers from paper mills.Certain steps can be taken, but this is a challenge universities and journals are not ready to face.Some use paper mills for their profit nature.com/articles/d4158…