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Paper mills offered research paper authorship for up to $800 #academicpublishing #papermills #researchfraud
Paper mills offered research paper authorship for up to $800
ERR’s Novaator found that buying authorship of a research paper from so-called paper mills can be surprisingly easy, with one offer priced at $800. Paper mills do not conduct genuine research. Instead, they mass-produce texts that appear credible and sell authorship for a fee, allowing buyers to …
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September 6, 2026 at 4:30 AM
emiliab.bsky.social
#ResearchFraud #Retractionwatch @retractionwatch.com Folks I really have to wonder what the point is of me reaching out to COPE if the subsequent correction overlooks key issues I highlighted. There is no mention at all of the fact that the research owns the domain from which she was
June 17, 2026 at 12:56 PM
bibiothecarius.bsky.social
Can we stop AI from flooding scientific journals? cen.acs.org/articles/104...

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #Ethics #AcademicWriting #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #FalsifyingData #Fraud #FraudDetection #ResearchFraud
Can we stop AI from flooding scientific journals?
AI detectors may never beat fraud. Changing how science rewards its researchers might be the only fix that does
cen.acs.org
July 30, 2026 at 12:16 AM
bibiothecarius.bsky.social
Tracking the retracted paper mill articles: a bibliometric study: doi.org/10.1007/s111...

#Retractions #PaperMills #OpenAccess #OA #OpenScholarship #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #Fraud #ResearchFraud #Ethics #Misconduct
doi.org
July 29, 2026 at 4:53 AM
bibiothecarius.bsky.social
The legend that is @elisabethbik.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DXZ4us-...

#Fraud #FraudDetection #ResearchFraud #Science #Research #AcademicResearch #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #Retractions
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April 23, 2026 at 3:46 AM
bibiothecarius.bsky.social
www.polytechnique-insights.com/en/columns/s...

#Fraud #FraudDetection #ResearchFraud #Science #Research #AcademicResearch #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #Retractions #PaperMills
Scientific fraud: analysis of a growing phenomenon
Scientific fraud: analysis of a growing phenomenon – Read the column on Polytechnique Insights
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November 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
columbiaup.bsky.social
"Among the world’s most cited biomedical scientists, with 'more than thirty years of direct experience of biomedical research,' Szabo blows the lid off his field."—Christopher Lane, Psychology Today buff.ly/K8ItxJi #ResearchFraud #ResearchEthics #ReproducibilityCrisis #BiomedicalResearch
Unreliable Biomedicine: A Book Review
A new book on biomedical research sounds the alarm on its replication crisis.
buff.ly
March 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
lseimpactblog.bsky.social
👀ICYMI: "When a researcher tries multiple specifications and reports only the one that “works” for them, no forensic analysis can prove intent"

#Metascience #ResearchFraud
The real threat to trust in science isn’t outright fraud, but the pervasive tweaking of research designs and models - LSE Impact
Thomas Plümper and Eric Neumayer argue that science's credibility issues stem from the deliberate manipulation of research designs and model specifications.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
April 10, 2026 at 7:17 AM
paulguinnessy.bsky.social
The Chinese government is cracking down on #ResearchFraud, including “strict punishment for misconduct such as fabricating or falsifying research findings; buying, selling, ghostwriting...; buying, selling, falsifying, or tampering of experimental data; and other forms of academic misconduct.”
Jason Hu on LinkedIn: 最高院举行《关于以高质量审判服务保障科技创新的意见》新闻发布会_保护_司法_三中全会
Great move by China government to crackdown paper mills: On January 6, the Supreme People’s Court of China held a press conference to release the Opinions of…
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jasonhucj_最高院举行关于以高质量审判服务保障科技创新的意见新闻发布会保护司法三中全会-activity-7283054149263405056-fx5f/
February 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
hncompanion.com
Skepticism surrounds the paper's data - called "too clean." Doubts raised about a 2nd-year PhD student achieving such scale & implausible innovation gains reported. Red flags cited include questionable IRB claims. #ResearchFraud 2/6
May 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
aliciaault.bsky.social
Made-up paper in made-up journal spoofs @erictopol.bsky.social and other authors, then disappears. Via @retractionwatch.com

#AI #researchfraud #fraud #ethics #papermills #science
Journal goes dark after impersonating Eric Topol and others
Within hours of researchers from prestigious institutions discovering they were listed as authors on a fabricated paper, the website for the journal and publisher has been taken down.  Cardiol…
retractionwatch.com
April 27, 2026 at 3:48 PM
msklibrary.bsky.social
nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s...

#ScientificIntegrity #ResearchEthics #AcademicFraud
#ScienceMatters #FakeScience #TrustInScience
#StopFakeResearch #ReformPublishing #ScienceUnderThreat #ResearchFraud #ScientificMisconduct
Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds
nytimes.com
August 5, 2025 at 11:50 AM
msklibrary.bsky.social
Invasion of the ‘journal snatchers’: the firms that buy science publications and turn them rogue

nature.com/articles/d41...

#PredatoryJournals #AcademicPublishing #ScientificIntegrity #PaperMills #JournalHijacking #ResearchFraud #OpenAccessAbuse #PublishOrPerish #ScienceUnderAttack #AcademicScam
April 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
febsletters.bsky.social
🧑‍🔬 New in the Scientists Forum: #ResearchFraud and problematic images are undermining #SystematicReviews.

Jenny P. Berrío and @okalliokoski.bsky.social identified issues with 19% of studies for a review on #PreclinicalDepression.

➡️ doi.org/10.1002/1873-3468.70077

#ResearchIntegrity #PaperMills
June 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
kwagner.bsky.social
Had no idea how large this problem is!
Fraudulent research pollutes the literature, slows down scientific progress, delays the discovery of therapies and reduces public trust in science.
Created by pressure on scientists to publish.
#Medsky #science #MedicalResearch #ResearchFraud #Papermills
PAPER MILLS EXPLODE The proportion of scientific articles with close textual similarities to papermill products is increasing.
January 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
bryan00064.bsky.social
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYsEfwTq/

Seems like a good opportunity to discuss incentives, opportunity cost, and inefficiency. #teachecon
Get this woman a TV show! #researchfraud #tea #gossip #fraud #detective #data #protein #westernblot
TikTok video by Elspeth Kirkman
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December 26, 2024 at 9:05 PM
somssich.bsky.social
"Elisabeth Bik, expert in scientific integrity: ‘We need to slow down scientific publishing’"

Interview that El País conducted with @elisabethbik.bsky.social about her work. English version.

english.elpais.com/science-tech...

#ScientificPublishing #SciPub #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchFraud
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
english.elpais.com
April 29, 2024 at 8:41 AM
tscimat.bsky.social
With fraudulent research multiplying faster than retractions, can science protect its credibility before trust collapses? @PNASNews

Article: thesciencematters.org/how-fake-res...
Research: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#ethics #fakeresearch #papermills #pnas #researchfraud #retraction
Could fake science be poisoning everything we trust?
August 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
katherinestiles.org
Bogus scientific papers are enriching fraudsters and slowing lifesaving medical research ‣ @us.theconversation.com · #researchfraud
Bogus scientific papers are enriching fraudsters and slowing lifesaving medical research
The world’s library of scientific papers is becoming contaminated as fraudsters use ‘paper mills’ to game scholarly publishing for profit.
theconversation.com
February 1, 2025 at 11:14 PM
rouhiroo.bsky.social
Great overview of COPE #researchintegrity red flags to help identify #researchfraud from AIP Publishing's Allegra Torres, research integrity lead.
Visual from COPE with various red flags that indicate a paper might be fraudulent.
April 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
lexbouter.bsky.social
Shocking new form of #ResearchFraud : #FakeCitations are for sale for US$ 6 - #FakePapers boosting #CitationScores
@WCRIFoundation @NRIN_Integrity @C0PE @RetractionWatch @JAByrneSci @MicrobiomDigest @peerrevcongress...
December 20, 2024 at 12:56 PM
wcrifoundation.bsky.social
Sexual misconduct in science may not face same penalties as research fraud

#SexualMisconduct #ResearchFraud #WCRI2026 #WCRI

phys.org/news/2025-09...
Sexual misconduct in science may not face same penalties as research fraud
Science strives to produce reliable knowledge, advance our understanding of the world, and ultimately drive progress. This pursuit depends not only on individual excellence but also on collaboration, ...
phys.org
September 17, 2025 at 1:57 AM
jeffreybrainard.bsky.social
#researchfraud #papermills #academicpublishing @science.org
www.science.org/content/arti...
Journal plagued with problematic papers, likely from paper mills, pauses submissions
The halt will let Taylor & Francis focus on checking Bioengineered’s papers for fraudulent works and paid authorships
www.science.org
July 3, 2025 at 9:52 PM
serhiinazarovets.bsky.social
A powerful new study, Richardson et al. @pnas.org reveals the scale of systematic research fraud: fake papers are doubling every 1.5 years - ten times faster than real science! Retractions and deindexing can't keep up: 📄 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #ResearchFraud #Integrity #PaperMills #AcademicEthics
Annual global scientific activity captured by WoS as measured by the number of actively publishing journals, the number of journals deindexed annually by WoS, the number of journals with retractions, the number of journals with PubPeer comments, and the number of journals with suspected paper mill products. It is visually apparent that deindexing now occurs at a level far below the level of occurrence of journals publishing suspected paper mill products. These patterns hold for Scopus and MEDLINE. R.A.K. Richardson, S.S. Hong, J.A. Byrne, T. Stoeger, & L.A.N. Amaral, The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (32) e2420092122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2420092122 (2025).
August 5, 2025 at 12:34 PM
ban-cbw.bsky.social
#BiologicalWeapons #Deskilling #Research #ResearchFraud #ArtificialIntelligence #CRISPR
Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s...

A statistical analysis found that the number of fake journal articles being churned out by “paper mills” is ...
Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds
www.nytimes.com
August 10, 2025 at 4:04 AM