WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026300 USD to buy a peer-review experience, details: www.5gh.org.cn/Report/2026/... 000
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Chinese authors are less likely to opt in to publishing peer review reports. Details: www.5gh.org.cn/Report/2026/... 000
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Mass editor resignations at academic journals have risen in recent years. Since 2000, there have been 78 such events, peaking at 14 in 2023, details: www.5gh.org.cn/Report/2026/... 000
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Over the past two decades, the market for journal transfers among academic publishers experienced a peak around 2015 and then fell into a downturn. However, it has seen another small peak driven by the development of AI, with a total of 254 journals transferred in 2024. (1/3) 110
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026A BioNanoScience (a Springer Nature title) paper by Indian scholars [1] mislabeled an India-based author affiliation as China. It is unclear whether the error originated in the manuscript or during publication. [1] 10.1007/s12668-025-01973-9 000
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026How many articles were published in Chinese researchers in 2025? And how many articles were published in Chinese journals in 2025? Here is the data from OpenAlex 000
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Xinrui admits preferentially adjusting ranking categories for Chinese journals, details: www.5gh.org.cn/Report/2026/... 010
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Recently, the 5GH Team noticed that some users on RedNote (also known as Xiaohongshu), a popular Chinese social media platform, were looking for authors who had submitted manuscripts to academic journals and asking them to cite their clients' articles. Details: www.5gh.org.cn/Report/2026/... 021
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Multiple companies in Nanchang are suspected of selling academic papers, details: www.5gh.org.cn/Report/2026/... 032
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026A total of 14,667 Diamond Open Access journals are indexed in the DOAJ. Brazil leads with 1,243, followed by Indonesia (1,217), Spain (982), Poland (796), and the United States (676). China accounts for 131 of these journals. 010
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Three unrelated studies from two different author groups cite the same ethical approval number (2023-RE-046). Details: www.5gh.org.cn/Report/2026/... 110
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 30/08/2026A recent investigation reveals that three unrelative studies conducted by the team from Wuhan Children's Hospital, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, share the same ethical approval (grant number: 2024R151-E01). Details: www.5gh.org.cn/Report/2026/... 021
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Recently, we have identified 36 journals whose publication volume has increased markedly over the last three years. We are not suggesting that all of these 36 journals are problematic; however, it is worth taking a closer look at them. 000
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 18/08/2026China has launched several high-impact journals. However, most of the articles published in them, and most citations to them come from China. Such a high share of domestic contributions raises a question: Can a journal be considered successful based solely on its impact factor? 010
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Unusually high impact factor of Molecular Plant raises two questions: (1) Is it inflated by deliberately limiting the number of papers published? (2) Is it inflated by publishing a disproportionately high share of review articles? The data speak for themselves. 010
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 07/08/2026This is one of the RSC Advances articles containing multiple hallucinated references 010
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 04/08/2026An article [10.1371/journal.pone.0355398] published on PLoS ONE appears to have been accepted without the evaluation of any external reviewer. Details: www.5gh.org.cn/Report/2026/... 010
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 03/08/2026The author list for the Ref 9 of the article [10.1039/d6ra05439k] is inaccurate. 020
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 03/08/2026The author list for the Ref 48 of the article (10.1039/d6ra05965a) is inaccurate. 020
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Several inaccuracies were found in the references of article (10.1039/d6ra02871c): www.5gh.org.cn/Report/2026/... 010
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 01/08/202640,000 CNY and 5 days, you can have a complete manuscript, with guaranteed acceptance, details: www.5gh.org.cn/Report/2026/... 010
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 01/08/2026The number of China–U.S. collaborative papers has grown exponentially since the 1990s. Although the growth slowed somewhat after 2000, it rebounded in 2025, when the annual number of jointly authored papers between the two countries surpassed 100,000 for the first time. 001
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 31/07/2026PLoS: Average Peer Review Times Exceed 200 Days at Multiple Journals [1] plos.org/text-and-dat... (accessed 31 July 2026) 010
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 31/07/2026We have recently identified five hijacked Chinese journals that, to our knowledge, have not yet been added to the Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker. 011
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 27/07/2026According to the latest DOAJ data, China is home to 315 journals that accept English manuscripts, ranking 18th globally. 010
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 20/07/2026The most prevalent misconducts by Iranian medical postgraduate students are: using others’ ideas without citation (43%), dishonest/selective reporting (38%), fabricated/manipulated/deleted data (34%), and authorship misconduct (34%). [1] 10.1186/s41073-026-00202-5 010
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 19/07/2026The chart shows the number of articles that use different public social databases. However, these trends do not reflect how well the data infrastructure supports our research. In fact, they suggest that the databases have been deliberately exploited to boost publication numbers. 010
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 18/07/2026A author group from Xihua University has published 9 articles (6 journal articles and 3 preprints) based on secondary analyses of the CGSS. They were submitted within a one-year period, suggesting that the authors intended to slice the research into the least publishable units. 011
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 17/07/2026None of Dove's EiC comes from China. It is said that Dove have over 80 journals, in their website (www.dovepress.com/editors_in_c...), 65 EiC were listed, none comes from China 012
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Three articles [1-3] share the same ethical approval number (2021LL0501); however, different participant groups were described in these articles. Details: www.5gh.org.cn/Report/2026/... [1] 10.1371/journal.pone.0345506 [2] 10.3389/fpsyt.2026.1836080 [3] 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1597652 011
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Investigation reveals that ZHU Xingchen (朱星辰) exhibits several salami-slicing publication practices. They are intended to boost the authors' publication records, but provide limited contributions to the scientific community. Details: www.5gh.org.cn/Report/2026/... 011
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Article [1] suggests a structured after-school physical activity program can improve physical fitness, body composition, and sleep of primary school students. Caution is needed when we interpret the results. Details: www.5gh.org.cn/Report/2026/... [1] 10.1186/s12889-025-25843-x 011
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Based on publication records (obtianed from OpenAlex) from 13 U.S. institutions, nearly 10% of their papers involved Chinese co-authors, and China ranked between 3rd and 5th among their international collaborators. Details: www.5gh.org.cn/Report/2026/... 010
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 11/07/2026The United States is the top 1 collaborating country for Chinese universities. Here are the data from six universities, data was obtained from OpenAlex 020
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Concerns are raised regarding the article [1]. Details: www.5gh.org.cn/Report/2026/... [1] 10.1038/s44360-026-00149-3 011
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I am wondering: Are OA journals obliged to disclose their institutional transformative agreement partners? 000
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Our investigation reveals that Chinese authors are over represented in Advanced Materials family. In 2025, about 61% published in Advanced Materials have a Chinese first author. The number reaches 71.6% in Advanced Functional Materials. 020
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 16/06/2026In 2025, Advanced Materials published 4,243 articles, of which 2,571 have a Chinese first author, accounting for 61% of the total publications of the journal in the specific year. Those 2,571 articles received an average of 15.7 citations each. 000
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 15/06/2026In 2025, Chinese aurthors published 15,806 articles in Scientific Reports, accounting for 32% of the total publications in the journal. However, these 15,806 articles have received an average of 3.02 citations each, ranking 37th among the nations published more than 20 articles. 121
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 14/06/2026In 2023, 52% (4349/8379) articles published on STOTEN were from China (first author); however, this number decreased to 19% (561/2988) in 2025. 010
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 14/06/2026An investigation reveals that PLoS articles with a Chinese first author have a citation disadvantage. Details: www.5gh.org.cn/Report/2026/...5gh.org.cnChinese Articles in PLoS Have a Citation DisadvantageChinese Articles in PLoS Have a Citation Disadvantage 110
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 26/05/2026According to OpenAlex records, XU Ruihua of Sun Yat-sen University published over 200 articles in 2023. In recent years, he has published over 100 articles per year. 120
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 25/05/2026The hospital director published nearly 70 papers a year, is this a normal number? 010
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 19/05/2026This article was published on WR in 2018, and a Corrigendum was published 6 years latter. Difference experiment procedure was described between the original article and Corrigendum. We would like to understand the rationale by which the journal decided to issue Corrigendum. 010
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Eight references (Ref. 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 23, 24) are false. Searching their titles on Google Scholar returned no results. The author and title for the Ref 20 do not match to each other. Further more, the Ref 7 and Ref 26 are the same reference, as are the Ref 9 and Ref 27. 010
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Recently, the we received a message alleging the data reported in article [1] may be manipulated. After the investigation, we found some anomalous data in the article. Details: www.5gh.org.cn/Report/2026/... [1] 10.1038/s41565-025-02082-0 011
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Recently, we obtained a document showing that Wuhan University purchased an 80TB Sci-Hub paper dataset from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2025 for a tender price of 70,000 RMB, via a "single-source" procurement. 110
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Investigation revealed abnormal spectra on this article. In Fig. 21, the red, purple, green and yellow lines show unexpected back tracks. It remain unknown whether back tracks were caused by image processing, or they were resulted from problematic data. 011
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Two articles, [1] and [2], contain 20 identical figures, all of which are reused from a Master's Thesis. Details: www.5gh.org.cn/Report/2026/... [1] 10.1016/j.cej.2026.173309 [2] 10.1016/j.energy.2025.137818 011
WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 13/04/2026We previously identified 10 problematic references in a PLoS ONE article, details: www.5gh.org.cn/Report/2026/... And recently, we found another PLoS ONE article, published on the same day, also has a potential hallucination reference, details: www.5gh.org.cn/Report/2026/... 011
