By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts 28.11.2025 – a Good Russian in eastern Germany, a pensioner victimised in New York, with several MDPI retractions for papermillers and Italian bigwigs, interesting corrections, failed proper channels, and finally, even more cancers ended with nanoparticles.
Schneider Shorts 29.08.2025 – Little Britain special with an old crab in China, Glasgow maffia, a greedy dame, perks under the holly, and a citations improvement regime, plus peculiar corrections, and the health benefits of red meat and red light.
Schneider Shorts 30.05.2025 – Czech university names a building, British doctor cures neuro disorders, Dutch editor impressed by Neapolitan honesty, when even preprints aren’t safe, with retractions in India and Cameroon, and finally, London scholars lose a plastic ear.
Schneider Shorts 16.05.2025 – totally not an Italian mafia in Philly, a Korean groceries papermill, with ACS’s morals, Springer Nature’s gatekeeping, radiant biophotons, Harvard’s AI to get rid of useless eaters, and finally, Theranos’s triumphal return!
“To date, he has authored over 700 peer-reviewed articles, 150 book chapters, 25 edited books, and 10 editorial-type scientific articles in various areas of Science and Engineering. Dr. Bilal has a h-index of 94 with 34 000 citations (Google Scholar).”
“I like ImageTwin, but seeing things with just eyes is like hand-to-hand combat….” – Mu Yang
Schneider Shorts 24.05.2024 – an Australian dean helps a young man from Iran, two British professors discover Asian papermills, Nature opens a smoking lounge, German doctors suffer tragic retractions, a special issue pulled due to Swedish professor, and how Cell Press bends over backwards for an angry old German man.
Schneider Shorts of 23.02.2024 – MDPI’s war on Ukraine, naughty Italian editor at Elsevier, Frontiers shocked by cartoon penis, with an attention-seeking Nobelist, a half-investigation in Bochum, Finnish thief and abuser in Denmark, and a fake lizard finally exposed.
“Go and change the globe to a more positive future instead”
French nanotechnologists Sabine Szunerits and Rabah Boukherroub put EU Commission’s money to good use. The EU cannot afford a papermill gap to Iran and China!
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