The Citation Payola
“The proposition that a niche of citation brokers exists, opens our eyes to other transaction options..” . Smut Clyde
Category: paper mills
Salesmen of Green Economy Bullshit
“This bullshit is a form of greenwashing, as policymakers might believe that with growing amount of “research” we are making progress. Except we are heading nowhere.” – Alexander Magazinov
Bad Choices in Dresden IV
A guide on what qualities universities in Germany, Italy and elsewhere in Europe expect from their foreign PhD students and postdocs.
Comet Hunting
“if you can solve a captcha you should be able to identify fabricated comet assay images. If you can’t, you can absolutely sit this one out, Springer Nature probably has a job for you instead.”- Sholto David
Boys from Brazil
“We can always make mistakes in our publications but never acting intensionally. Regarding Prof. Eder works, I know him well and I don’t believe he has anything wrong” – Glaydson S. Dos Reis
King Saud’s Men
Celebrating the ten greatest science geniuses of the King Saud University.
Iran-Man of Sussex and Wonder-Woman of Amsterdam
“no further steps will be taken as a result.”
A Sting Inside a Papermill
“It’s clear that any academically corrupt individual — particularly one with editorial connections — could easily “place” dozens of these Anzen products into indexed journals and collect a handsome side income in the process.” – Csaba Szabo
The perfect MDPI editor
“I know you cannot understand such matters, since you appear to have strong mother-related problems that most likely have denied you of a satisfactory sexual life”, _ Enrico Sciubba, Editor-in-Chief
Hear her laughing in earthquake land
“For that marketplace is a labyrinth as large as the academic world, and the Ariadnean thread that traces the path back out of its interior seems to sprout subsidiary threads that lead into plant-based green nanoparticle synthesis or some other side-alley of parascience.” – Smut Clyde
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