Showing posts with label paper mills. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paper mills. Show all posts
Friday, 21 November 2025

The dangers of using bibliometrics with polluted data

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  This week I attended a Webinar organised by Clarivate on the topic of “ Eugene Garfield Centenary Celebration: Past, Present and Future ...
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Saturday, 18 January 2025

Tomatoes roaming the fields and canaries in the coalmine: another embarrassing paper for MDPI

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  Many publishers are getting nervous about infiltration by paper mills, who can torpedo a journal's reputation when they succeed in pu...
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Monday, 21 October 2024

What is going on at the Journal of Psycholinguistic Research?

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Last week this blog focussed on problems affecting Scientific Reports , a mega-journal published by Springer Nature. This week I look at a ...
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Tuesday, 24 September 2024

Using PubPeer to screen editors

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  2023 was the year when academic publishers started to take seriously the threat that paper mills posed to their business. Their resear...
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Friday, 9 February 2024

The world of Poor Things at MDPI journals

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At the weekend, the Observer ran a piece by Robin McKie entitled "‘ The situation has become appalling’: fake scientific papers push ...
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Sunday, 23 July 2023

Is Hindawi “well-positioned for revitalization?”

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Guest post by Huanzi Zhang*  Screenshot from https://www.wiley.com/en-us/network/publishing/research-publishing/open-access/wiley-acqui...
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