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Whistleblowers cite eyewitness reports, data anomalies, and outsize effects in studies, but researchers deny wrongdoing

“If there’s someone having a negative impact on science, it is Cofnas, not his critics. ” – Pieter Beck

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Elsevier’s International Journal of Biological Macromolecules has issued more than 100 retractions and counting for manipulated peer review in guest-edited special issues. The publisher has said on…

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Review mills — researchers who write fake referee reports with coercive citation requests — are setting off a war in academic publishing. What happens to those caught in the middle?

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KI macht es Paper Mills leichter denn je, wissenschaftliche Arbeiten zu fälschen. Immer wieder werden solche Fake-Studien veröffentlicht - auch weil die Prüfmechanismen an ihre Grenzen stoßen. Doch es...