By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 30.10.2025 – torturing students for science in Chile, a professor in Taiwan shaves his legs, with Scottish sustainability, universities taking distance, retractions for papermilling, insignificance and plagiarism, clogged proper channels, and finally, how AI can be used for science.
“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
Schneider Shorts 2.05.2025 – German ex-university president once again innocent, US ex-university president heads a big company, a Noble Genius awarded, with talking mice, papermills reaching Science, concerns expressed for male bigwigs, and finally, how to escape heart attack while drunk.
Schneider Shorts 24.01.2025 – a retirement party in Bristol, a Canadian without worries, papermilling across the Irish sea and other things MDPI lets through, with a pile of retractions, a corrected cure for Parkinson’s, and finally, coffee, milk and strawberries to avoid death.
Schneider Shorts 20.09.2024 – A Californian man and his trusty clock, Oded’s Dad and other Israeli Scientists, first retractions for a French couple, an Indiana man and an Iranian papermiller, an Elsevier book facing removal, with funny corrections, ex-editor bemoaning a conspiracy and finally, with a concussion device getting pummelled.
“The academic career of D’Orazio is tightly coupled to that of Karimipour since she hosted him at Sapienza. Of the 57 papers she declared authorship for, 25 (44%) are published together with Karimipour.” – Maarten van Kmapen
“[Timon Rabczuk] is happily accepting 2 million euro of European money, whilst at the same time optimizing his return-on-investment on Vietnamese affiliation scam and cashing in on his ‘highly cited researcher’ accolades by also posing as King Saud researcher.” – Maarten van Kampen
“The business of selling authorships and citations needs a steady supply of paper-shaped vehicles. It is most efficient to produce these in assembly lines that focus on a narrow topic.” – Maarten van Kampen
Schneider Shorts 29.09.2023 – an Egyptian cheater wiped out, superconductive fraud to be retracted again, editors finding nothing out of order, with a Mexican Photoshop artist, another dodgy correction, and finally, with eugenic, pardon, genetic evidence for segregated schools.
“We have initiated post-acceptance peer review with independent reviewers… ” – Wiley.
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