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“There is so much money flowing through this system that I don’t see what will stop the network of papermills and corrupt editors.” – Nick Wise
Hymie Dearness – Confessions of a Mitochondriac
“I am not angry with the post-publication surgery that the publisher performed on the affected papers after discovering the shenanigans, scrubbing off the names of spurious reviewers. Just very disappointed.” – Smut Clyde
Environmental Pseudoscience and Polluted Research
“We are living in a faked world and there is a lot of un-verified avatars. “, Philippe Garrigues, EiC
We don’t need no education, We don’t need no thought control
“Of course the sentient rubber-stamps guest-editing Special Issues on behalf of papermills would have accepted anything – they don’t give two tugs on a dead dingo’s dick about content ” – Smut Clyde
Elsevier chooses Papermills and Patriarchy, Chief Editor resigns
“Among these candidates that you “vetted” were people with no expertise in the field (either 0 or 1 publication), people with longer PubPeer profiles and more retractions than most people have articles on their CVs, and people whose names appear as authors on sold paper sites. ” – Jillian Goldfarb
Ukrainian papermills – symptom, not a cause
“Prof. Dr. Svetlana Drobyazko, The European Academy of Sciences Ltd and Scientific Publication Service are a symptom, not a cause, of the current problems in academic publishing. ” – Nick Wise
Synthetic Communications with Ali Fakhri and his real or imaginary friends
“the entire dramatis personae seem to have crawled out of our man’s sock drawer, and the page-count of Synthetic Communications would be grievously impoverished without his contributions, whether direct or uncredited.”- Smut Clyde
Ash Ra Template
“There is another possibility, though… that C.-C. Sun is the papermill, supplying colleagues around Wuhan with variants of the same paper, with the condition that those donated manuscripts carry self-citation payloads.” – Smut Clyde
Eligible for a full waiver
“I reviewed papers published in special issues of Hindawi journals that had corresponding authors from low- and middle-income countries. It seems, the APC waiver policy may be being abused by papermills” – Parashorea tomentella
