I was at a panel discussion at Wiley in Hoboken NJ last week. Met with publishers, staff, the CEO, and Jesse Wiley. It was a good experience overall.

Yellow arrows point to a trace that occurred in 3 papers. Although they indicate the same compound, synthesis method in the paper in the middle is different from the other two papers. My friend and fellow sleuth Reese Richardson helped me on this. 10.1016/j.molstruc.2020.129163

It happened: Raja Mythili from the corrupt Saveetha Dental College Official (Saveetha college) got her first retraction! R. Mythili is a #papermill #fraud! doi.org/10.1016/j.envr…

Two new entries in the Retraction Watch leaderboard! 2025 is going to be a very exciting year with many retractions coming for many authors involved in (#papermill) publication #fraud. However, publishers are still too lenient into accepting corrections or just ignoring issues

What kind of people do they have UGent? One of their most famous professors, Carl Devos, who just now deleted his twitter profile (@devoscarl), has been outed as a bully and sexual predator! As usual, the university swept it under the rug! Rik Van de Walle

The KU Leuven professor J. Winderickx harasses female students👇, so what does rector Luc Sels do? He tries to keep the lid on it! Unbelievable, another case in Belgium of harassing professors! When will universities stop protecting their corrupt people? forbetterscience.com/2025/03/28/sch…

Does Jan Konvalinka actually know about you, David M. Sabatini, being a sexual predator? Apparently sexually harassing students doesn't matter, you can still land top jobs! Fraud, bullying etc pays off! Always! IOCB Prague must be very proud to have someone like you!

The #papermill #fraud Muhammad Hamzah Saleem goes mental after being exposed here for his #fraud. This person already has 7 retractions and he is only at the start of his 'career'. He works at جامعة قطر where he continues his paper mill activities.

Javed Sarkash Muhammad Hamzah Saleem جامعة قطر Can you imagine it, as a master student 14,000 citations and hubdreds of papers... Muhammad Hamzah Saleem sure has some mental issues. But many of these frauds have

My take: Peaks in the red trace seem to reflect a shortage of red ink. pubpeer.com/publications/5… Similar cases pubpeer.com/publications/3… pubpeer.com/publications/9…

Another CEJ paper pubpeer.com/publications/4…

Meet #papermill #fraud Maximilian Lackner from UAS Technikum Wien. He discovered the art of paper milling around 2022 but became really good at it in 2024. He also reviews like crazy. His university thinks he is an amazing scientist! More on his fraud soon!

Fraud pays off! #papermill #fraud Qusay Hassan from University of Diyala (University of Diyala - جامعة ديالى) who has already 20(!!) retractions got 2 awards: Best Researcher and Best Research of the Year during the Iraq Science Day celebration. Clarivate why did you not warn them about this fraud?

Well Well, #papermill #fraud Victor Sunday Aigbodion from University of Nigeria nsukka got another retraction! This fraud has published nothing but fake studies. Retraction nr. 11 already! When will other publishers start retraction his crap? So far only Springer Nature acted.

The highly corrupt editor and #papermill #fraud Hassan Karimi-Maleh loses another paper due to a retraction, nr. 12 for this fraud! Yet he remains an editor for Springer Nature. Why?? Tim Kersjes when will Nature Portfolio act and kick him out? He is a major fraud!!!!

Another retraction for #papermill #fraud Daniel Balsalobre-Lorente from Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha! This fraud has been publishing #papermill junk non-stop. DB publishes only fake stuff and has his papers edited/reviewed by frequent coauthors! He is a fraud. Will his university act?

One of the biggest challenges to fixing academia is a fundamental structural problem: it's really hard to switch jobs. There are very few (good) jobs. The main job market is once a year. Jobs tend to be in different cities/states. Moving costs a lot of money (plus housing

Gaming the metrics: bibliometric anomalies in global university rankings and the research integrity risk index (RI2)👇Published in the Springer Nature journal #scientometrics. Read all about it here: doi.org/10.1007/s11192…

Editorial bias, nepotism, and the “club culture” in Indian medical journals. Abstract: We are compelled to address a persistent and troubling issue in Indian medical publishing: the widespread favouritism in editorial decisions. Many Indian journals, rather than serving as

One of the retracted papers is from Soheil Salahshour, a #fraud that already has 8 (!!) retractions (4 shown here) because of his fraud. Soheil Salahshour is a #papermill #fraud. This fraud works at İstanbul Okan Üniversitesi and most likely his university supports his fraud.