“How can one artifically make this happen?”
“This phenomenon is called “fraud with Photoshop”, dear Dr Wei.” – Aneurus Inconstans
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“This phenomenon is called “fraud with Photoshop”, dear Dr Wei.” – Aneurus Inconstans
“For as I have often bemoaned in the past, not even the paper-forging industry is free from scruple- and principle-deficient players.” – Smut Clyde
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“Or The author can also put your name to the article to increase your academic popularity, such as adding your name to the second or third author.”
“sadly, no-one could find any other evidence of existence for these festively-named individuals, who may well be Knock-Knock jokes that somehow gained sentience.” – Smut Clyde
“I am open to the possibility that they both outsourced their Western Blot production to a single, independent Wurst-Meister specialist.” – Dr Smut Clyde, art historian of the Chinese Papermill Renaissance.
Smut Clyde chases free radicals in a German-run lab in China
Smut Clyde came to check how the Elsevier journal Microprocessors & Microsystems so far handled its “problems caused by dishonest guest editors and reviewers”.
Smut Clyde chases the ubiquitous multifaced Chen twins.
“Even university management eventually realised that self-citations of your work, in your own papers, shouldn’t really count (“see ‘Toenail Clipping Microphotographs, Part 1’, S, Clyde 2018″). So people progressed to citation cabals among cronies, referring to each other’s work” – Smut Clyde









