A Book That Will Never Be Read
“I cannot shake the feeling that we find ourselves in a publisher-papermill complex, powered largely by public funding. ” – Michal Wojcik
Tag: Springer Nature
Schneider Shorts 7.08.2026 – The motive remains a mystery
Schneider Shorts 7.08.2026 – a tech bro cleans oceans, a climate expert suggests animal sacrifice, a creepy American crook still trying to cheat, Italian role models lose papers, Danish ecologist fails to cure cancer, and a Pole threatening punishment gets punished.
Schneider Shorts 17.04.2026 – Saving the planet never tasted this good
Schneider Shorts 17.04.2026 – an anti-aging clinical trial with bonus eye-cancer, a papermiller turns to full-time mushrooming, an artist-scientist educates a youngster, German and Canadian cancer researchers unconcerned, retractions in Italy and Poland, Springer Nature changes history, and finally, a shrimp virus turns people blind!
Crunchy Frog and Cockroach Cluster
“On one side: late-career scientists resorting to purchased promotion of their early-career papers. On the other side: whole new genres of paper-shaped artifacts that are little more than packaging for ever-larger citation cargoes, and papermillers no longer bothering to find buyers for naming rights on their products.” – Smut Clyde
Scientific Reports 2025: A Year in Review
“In this blog I write about papers published by Scientific Reports in 2025, so we could consider it to be a sort of “wrap-up” of highlights and special achievements in the world’s biggest scientific journal™ in 2025.” – Sholto David
Schneider Shorts 14.11.2025 – Having all these women around makes it more fun for the men
Schneider Shorts 14.11.2025 – undead vampire is dead, Harvard researcher laments grant loss, BMJ concerned about having been duped, with another Italian cheater, a rascist identity thief, a Hungarian multi-professor, and finally, how Springer Nature and Elsevier fight papermill fraud!
Schneider Shorts 3.10.2025 – A waste of everyone’s time
Schneider Shorts 3.10.2025 – Epstein and his academic friends, a Texas kleptomaniac, German professor innocent again,with an advice for PubPeer community, Scandinavian retractions, and finally, Springer Nature’s view on western blotting.
The Citation Payola
“The proposition that a niche of citation brokers exists, opens our eyes to other transaction options..” . Smut Clyde
Schneider Shorts 16.05.2025 – Something that runs through the whole organisation
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!
An unethical guide to 100.000 citations
“”A number of leading researchers have published their research contributions at this Journal among them Zhanhu Guo, Zhanhu Guo, Zhanhu Guo,….”
