Of course it doesn't mean that the rest of IEEE conference proceeding is clean. The society publisher wouldn't survive without papermills.
Record-breaking retraction: IEEE pulls >1,400 papers in one day — all linked to papermills (titles found for sale by @abalkina.bsky.social ). IEEE has retracted around 3,000 papers this year so far, our analysis suggests. @miryamnaddaf.bsky.social | @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Record-breaking retraction: scholarly publisher pulls 1,400 conference papers on one day
Announcement by IEEE follows publication of a study showing the retracted papers are linked to paper mills.
www.nature.com
October 30, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Of course it doesn't mean that the rest of IEEE conference proceeding is clean. The society publisher wouldn't survive without papermills.
Record-breaking retraction: IEEE pulls >1,400 papers in one day — all linked to papermills (titles found for sale by @abalkina.bsky.social ). IEEE has retracted around 3,000 papers this year so far, our analysis suggests. @miryamnaddaf.bsky.social | @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Record-breaking retraction: scholarly publisher pulls 1,400 conference papers on one day
Announcement by IEEE follows publication of a study showing the retracted papers are linked to paper mills.
www.nature.com
October 30, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Record-breaking retraction: IEEE pulls >1,400 papers in one day — all linked to papermills (titles found for sale by @abalkina.bsky.social ). IEEE has retracted around 3,000 papers this year so far, our analysis suggests. @miryamnaddaf.bsky.social | @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
It’s used in Icelandic too, foss and fors, rapids/falls… humans harness the energy these locations via sluice gates and in this spot there are canals too. Papermills, hydro electric etc. are common next Rapids and waterfalls like this here.
October 28, 2026 at 5:37 PM
It’s used in Icelandic too, foss and fors, rapids/falls… humans harness the energy these locations via sluice gates and in this spot there are canals too. Papermills, hydro electric etc. are common next Rapids and waterfalls like this here.
You and all the literary commandos at Writer Beware are doing some of the most important work anywhere, today. No blame if you need to step back, take a breather.
I can say, from 20+ years in scientific publishing, that papermills do this to editors, too, deliberately try to exhaust the defenders.
I can say, from 20+ years in scientific publishing, that papermills do this to editors, too, deliberately try to exhaust the defenders.
October 28, 2026 at 10:29 AM
You and all the literary commandos at Writer Beware are doing some of the most important work anywhere, today. No blame if you need to step back, take a breather.
I can say, from 20+ years in scientific publishing, that papermills do this to editors, too, deliberately try to exhaust the defenders.
I can say, from 20+ years in scientific publishing, that papermills do this to editors, too, deliberately try to exhaust the defenders.
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Next, THE rolls out a PROPER EXPERT from academia (because @smutclyde.bsky.social is an anon incel troll blogging on an anon Nazi website) to prove that there's no such thing as papermills and authorship market.
Framing, my dears.
Framing, my dears.
October 25, 2026 at 10:43 AM
Next, THE rolls out a PROPER EXPERT from academia (because @smutclyde.bsky.social is an anon incel troll blogging on an anon Nazi website) to prove that there's no such thing as papermills and authorship market.
Framing, my dears.
Framing, my dears.
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October 20, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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Suspected distortion of citations in high-impact cancer journals 🧪
#PaperMills that produce & sell manuscripts may be manipulating citations, but the extent of any manipulation is unknown. 1/5
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
Suspected distortion of citations in high-impact cancer journals 🧪
#PaperMills that produce & sell manuscripts may be manipulating citations, but the extent of any manipulation is unknown. 1/5
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
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October 16, 2026 at 1:37 AM
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Suspected distortion of citations in high-impact cancer journals 🧪
#PaperMills that produce & sell manuscripts may be manipulating citations, but the extent of any manipulation is unknown. 1/5
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
Suspected distortion of citations in high-impact cancer journals 🧪
#PaperMills that produce & sell manuscripts may be manipulating citations, but the extent of any manipulation is unknown. 1/5
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
Suspected Distortion of #Citations in High-Impact Cancer #Journals (full text: subscriber only; via
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That's a good point!
My personal theory is that human peer reviewers conditioned the system to produce a template of what a research paper must look like.
Problem is, only bad science fits this template. And papermills took over and perfected the template. And AI trains on it. What fun.
My personal theory is that human peer reviewers conditioned the system to produce a template of what a research paper must look like.
Problem is, only bad science fits this template. And papermills took over and perfected the template. And AI trains on it. What fun.
October 15, 2026 at 4:03 PM
That's a good point!
My personal theory is that human peer reviewers conditioned the system to produce a template of what a research paper must look like.
Problem is, only bad science fits this template. And papermills took over and perfected the template. And AI trains on it. What fun.
My personal theory is that human peer reviewers conditioned the system to produce a template of what a research paper must look like.
Problem is, only bad science fits this template. And papermills took over and perfected the template. And AI trains on it. What fun.
I was thinking of preprint servers not associated with publishers. Competitors to bioRxiv could arise that provide more strict screening of preprints (eg no papermills, or papers must include raw data, or other scrutiny), or less strict screening (eg a preprint server that embraces papermills)
October 8, 2026 at 2:07 PM
I was thinking of preprint servers not associated with publishers. Competitors to bioRxiv could arise that provide more strict screening of preprints (eg no papermills, or papers must include raw data, or other scrutiny), or less strict screening (eg a preprint server that embraces papermills)
Oh sweetie, you have no idea that you are my retailer of last resort, do you… if only you could see what I’d got from eBay, and from my two preferred papermills, and from Shepherds…
October 8, 2026 at 8:37 AM
Oh sweetie, you have no idea that you are my retailer of last resort, do you… if only you could see what I’d got from eBay, and from my two preferred papermills, and from Shepherds…
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"Opening Pandora’s box: Paper mills in conference proceedings"
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"Opening Pandora’s box: Paper mills in conference proceedings"
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Opening Pandora’s box: Paper mills in conference proceedings
Paper mills are a growing threat to the integrity of science, yet their penetration in conference proceedings remains underexplored despite conferences being more important than journals in some sc...
doi.org
October 2, 2026 at 6:55 AM
📝 Latest Article Alert! 📝
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"Opening Pandora’s box: Paper mills in conference proceedings"
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oh no, I quite like advances in technology. Papermaking technology is pretty advanced these days: how many papermills should our government build in your neighbourhood?
October 1, 2026 at 3:56 PM
oh no, I quite like advances in technology. Papermaking technology is pretty advanced these days: how many papermills should our government build in your neighbourhood?
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September 30, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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How scientific publishers are fighting back against fraudulent papermills – by Michael Banks (@physicsworld.bsky.social)
physicsworld.com/a/how-scient...
#AcademicPublishing #PaperMills #AI #ResearchIntegrity | @ioppublishing.bsky.social
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#AcademicPublishing #PaperMills #AI #ResearchIntegrity | @ioppublishing.bsky.social
How scientific publishers are fighting back against fraudulent papermills – Physics World
The growth of AI and papermills has caused publishers countless headaches
physicsworld.com
September 29, 2026 at 8:15 AM
How scientific publishers are fighting back against fraudulent papermills – by Michael Banks (@physicsworld.bsky.social)
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#AcademicPublishing #PaperMills #AI #ResearchIntegrity | @ioppublishing.bsky.social
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What does a paper mill paper look like? Not necessarily a long list of authors. We analysed 11,704 paper mill-related retractions in the @retractionwatch.com Database. Surprisingly, single-author papers were the largest individual authorship category. doi.org/10.1080/0361... #PaperMills #ScholComm
September 30, 2026 at 6:24 AM
What does a paper mill paper look like? Not necessarily a long list of authors. We analysed 11,704 paper mill-related retractions in the @retractionwatch.com Database. Surprisingly, single-author papers were the largest individual authorship category. doi.org/10.1080/0361... #PaperMills #ScholComm
In Wisconsin they're scheming up electric furnaces in shut down papermills. Make the Wisconsin River hard working again!
September 29, 2026 at 2:53 AM
In Wisconsin they're scheming up electric furnaces in shut down papermills. Make the Wisconsin River hard working again!
Great primer on academic (journals) publishing here from @michaelbanks.bsky.social for @physicsworld.bsky.social. Highlights the red hot topic of research integrity given the rise of "AI"
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physicsworld.com/a/how-scient...
How scientific publishers are fighting back against fraudulent papermills – Physics World
The growth of AI and papermills has caused publishers countless headaches
physicsworld.com
September 29, 2026 at 5:16 AM
Great primer on academic (journals) publishing here from @michaelbanks.bsky.social for @physicsworld.bsky.social. Highlights the red hot topic of research integrity given the rise of "AI"
physicsworld.com/a/how-scient...
physicsworld.com/a/how-scient...
Publishers are fighting back
@abalkina.bsky.social @elisabethbik.bsky.social
@gcabanac.cpesr.fr report fraud. @ioppublishing.bsky.social @eggletonkim.bsky.social retracts nearly 500 articles. @snsf.ch stops funding articles in special issues over quality concerns.
physicsworld.com/a/how-scient...
@abalkina.bsky.social @elisabethbik.bsky.social
@gcabanac.cpesr.fr report fraud. @ioppublishing.bsky.social @eggletonkim.bsky.social retracts nearly 500 articles. @snsf.ch stops funding articles in special issues over quality concerns.
physicsworld.com/a/how-scient...
How scientific publishers are fighting back against fraudulent papermills – Physics World
The growth of AI and papermills has caused publishers countless headaches
physicsworld.com
September 26, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Publishers are fighting back
@abalkina.bsky.social @elisabethbik.bsky.social
@gcabanac.cpesr.fr report fraud. @ioppublishing.bsky.social @eggletonkim.bsky.social retracts nearly 500 articles. @snsf.ch stops funding articles in special issues over quality concerns.
physicsworld.com/a/how-scient...
@abalkina.bsky.social @elisabethbik.bsky.social
@gcabanac.cpesr.fr report fraud. @ioppublishing.bsky.social @eggletonkim.bsky.social retracts nearly 500 articles. @snsf.ch stops funding articles in special issues over quality concerns.
physicsworld.com/a/how-scient...
"While misconduct generally used to be carried out by an individual looking for academic notoriety, it has now evolved into a co-ordinated and commercial activity that is tapping into science’s dependence on metrics when it comes to prestige and career progression."
physicsworld.com/a/how-scient...
physicsworld.com/a/how-scient...
How scientific publishers are fighting back against fraudulent papermills – Physics World
The growth of AI and papermills has caused publishers countless headaches
physicsworld.com
September 25, 2026 at 4:53 PM
"While misconduct generally used to be carried out by an individual looking for academic notoriety, it has now evolved into a co-ordinated and commercial activity that is tapping into science’s dependence on metrics when it comes to prestige and career progression."
physicsworld.com/a/how-scient...
physicsworld.com/a/how-scient...
2026. How scientific publishers are fighting back against fraudulent papermills physicsworld.com/a/how-scient...
How scientific publishers are fighting back against fraudulent papermills – Physics World
The growth of AI and papermills has caused publishers countless headaches
physicsworld.com
September 24, 2026 at 1:14 AM
2026. How scientific publishers are fighting back against fraudulent papermills physicsworld.com/a/how-scient...