Screenshot of NYT report…

“The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient,and growing rapidly” The toxic mix of #predatory_journals #AI and competitive #pressure in the academic system look like the perfect storm to mess-up #science 🥴🤮 […]

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Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research ‘Paper mills’ are contaminating the world’s scholarly output with fake papers that hinder research. Lifesaving biomedical fields are especially hard hit.

#Fake papers are contaminating the world’s #scientific #literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research (via @arstechnica.com)

#predatory_journals #predatory_publishing #papermills #retractions

theconversation.com/fake-papers-...

Predatory journals: what can we do to protect their prey? Discover the world’s best science and medicine | Nature.com

In their new Nature commentary #ICMJE notes that "Creation of such a list [of #predatory_journals] is infeasible as new entities continuously appear and disappear." Can't they create a list of reliable journals instead? doi.org/10.1038/d415... #publication_ethics #research_integrity