A Bingdi lotus is in bloom
“Mr. Efferth firmly rejects the suspicion raised against him of involvement in paper mill activities and in the publication of automatically generated publications.” – University of Mainz
Category: paper mills
Burt! This bloke won’t Kaggle!
“This is unedifying but illustrative on so many levels of how quickly papermills have parasitised the Open Science paradigm and strip-mined all its resources. It also illustrates how quickly the incantatory Worship Words of Machine Learning shut down the critical faculties of reviewers when included in a manuscript, convincing them that its ludicrous claims are merely restatements of what they already know.” – Smut Clyde
The Three Wise Deans of Islamabad
“Here is the story about one of those institutions where nearly all senior staff members including professors, associate professors and at least 3 former Deans are exposed on PubPeer with extensive evidence of fraud in multiple papers.” – Dayo Maor
Crunchy Frog and Cockroach Cluster
“On one side: late-career scientists resorting to purchased promotion of their early-career papers. On the other side: whole new genres of paper-shaped artifacts that are little more than packaging for ever-larger citation cargoes, and papermillers no longer bothering to find buyers for naming rights on their products.” – Smut Clyde
An expert criticism by fraudsters and antivaxxers: the case of PubPeer
“A concerning trend is the rise of “hyper-skepticism”” – ChatGPT
BMJ invaded by Iranian papermill
“Patients with weak heart function who receive stem cell therapy shortly after a heart attack are at lower risk of developing heart failure and related hospital stays compared with standard care, finds a clinical trial published by The BMJ today.”
The Heidelberg whistleblower
“Given Jost Jonas’ high productivity and his German origin, could it be that he somehow profits from helping Asian institutions with boosting their publication metrics?” – Aneurus Inconstans
Sons of Poland
“Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła,
Kiedy my żyjemy.
Co nam obca przemoc dała,
odpłacimy fabrykom artykułów.
Pest Management
” I have been receiving too much of these types of papers lately and I think we all are wasting our time with made up science” = Orthopyxis integra
The Citation Payola
“The proposition that a niche of citation brokers exists, opens our eyes to other transaction options..” . Smut Clyde
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