The Adventures of a Mouse Malignancy Group Portraitist
Smut Clyde was busy with yet another Chinese paper mill. A plastic ruler was deployed.
Tag: China
Dead horses won’t flog themselves
“This is electrophoresis porn, readers, a phrase that I never expected to find myself writing.” -Smut Clyde
How David Ojcius and Jie Yan solved Leptospirosis
Beware of Chinese collaborators bearing gift authorships!
“We are extremely guilty and distressed”
“Now no-one wants ForBetterScience to become an all-Papermill channel. And we cannot really expect to shame or inspire scriveners in the academic-ghostwriter industry to seek out more constructive applications for their talents, so the point of exposing them is not immediately obvious.” -Smut Clyde
Il Piccolo Mulino Verduci Frodatore
“I choose to think of the paper-mills as something like a mediaeval monastic scriptorium, with one table of tonsured monks working on the text, while the limners at another table illuminate the Figures.” – Smut Clyde
Society journal Bioscience Reports, ravaged
The society journal Bioscience Reports fell prey to many fraudulent papers. Cheshire counted around 50 with problematic figures, just for the last year.
Begger’s test for Schrödingerean predator-prey system
Why is it that nobody remembers the name of [the famous mathematician] Johann Gambolputty…
Tooth-Fairy-Meets-Easter-Bunny Science of TCM
Smut Clyde follows the dark path of Traditional Chinese Medicine again. What will he find there? As usual, all the big publishers peddling TCM fraud, that’s what.
Dark Satanic Papermills
Smut Clyde investigates two more Chinese paper mills. One teamed up with an obscure Italian publisher, the other offers access to respectable society journals. How much of published and allegedly peer reviewed science is real?
Elsevier’s research integrity
A Chinese paper gets rejected at Elsevier after reviewer spotted fraud. Same paper re-appears unchanged in another Elsevier journal, the editors refuse any action.
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