🚨 In recent years certain publishers have engaged in the practice whereby some manuscripts submitted for Special Issues (SI) are published but not marked as part of a SI. When this happens, the SI is usually canceled and is no longer visible. ⬇️

predatoryjournals.org/news/f/the-mem…

Excessive use of words like ‘commendable’ and ‘meticulous’ suggests ChatGPT has been used in thousands of scientific studies. El País English Edition 🤖🚨

english.elpais.com/science-tech/2…

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#ReviewMillSeries #FakeReview #CoerciveCitation

‼️Season 3 - Coming soon

4 reviewers 🇮🇳+1 Anonymous
40 review reports
6 MDPI journals
36 articles to be added (reviewer Mill 3=coauthor)

Details will also be at @[email protected]

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If the The OED are looking for a further definition of irony, we got you covered.

MDPI Publications MDPI #OpenAccess #Diamond

mdpi.com/journal/public…

Paper about fast/premium (paid) peer review: 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 by J. A. Teixeira da Silva and Y. Yamada. 🚨

link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Teixeira da Silva is one of the most prolific authors on #Predatory practices... He was banned by Taylor & Francis Research Insights for criticizing the publisher's peer review process and APC values. 🤡

🚨 The largest scientific body in Spain, universities and other academic entities sign a declaration against the Web of Science and Scopus, whose opaque information is used to distribute millions of euros of public money. ☢️

We are in other skies too: @predatoryjournals... 😉

More than 200 posts at @[email protected] so far.

I started with #ReviewMill 1 in October 2023 ⬇️

pubpeer.com/publications/C…

Still some way to go (long way I would say).

#MiniReviewMill 3 #FakeReview #CoerciveCitation

Coatings MDPI Materials MDPI Applied Sciences MDPI Sensors MDPI Biomimetics MDPI

Reviewers:
🔹Mostafa Habibi
🔹Anonymous
🔹Aatef Hobiny

Also in @[email protected]

Examples in the pictures.

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As of 2024, Elsevier has ceased publishing many #OpenAccess journals, including: 1⃣ Development Engineering (Est. 2016), 2⃣ J. Computational Physics: X (2019), 3⃣ Clinical Spectroscopy (2019), 4⃣ Results in Geochemistry (2020), 5⃣ Results in Geophysical Sciences (2020).

🚨 Chinese paper mills produce 55.7% of fake biomedical publications. ☣️

ft.com/content/76abf9…

#environmental #science literature is drowning in mass published nonsense, organized by corrupt editors.

Environ Technol Innov and Sci Total Environ illustrates the problem. Editors and authors are linked to get nonsensical papers published.
Elsevier Elsevier Environment COPE

🚨 One in 5 #Biomedical articles may contain faked data, with Chinese paper mills leading way (56% of the total). The real proportion is currently estimated at 20% or around 300,000 articles per year (only across #Biomedicine )! ☣️

ft.com/content/76abf9…

You'd honestly think that the 'Journal of Contemporary Education Theory & Artificial Intelligence' could find a better LLM to write its spam emails! Predatory Journals

Most prolific authors at the top of the pyramid with +40 papers/year are usually heads of large institutes with many subgroups and PhD students, while the bottom s populated by PhD students and Postdocs with less than 5 publications per year. #Preprint 🚨

osf.io/preprints/soca…

New predatory practice: #CitationMachine by Chil-Chyuan Kuo.