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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Paper mills are also likely contributing to “false discoveries”

“It’s clear that any academically corrupt individual — particularly one with editorial connections — could easily “place” dozens of these Anzen products into indexed journals and collect a ha…

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There’s a brilliant essay by Michael Nielsen from 2009 which predicted that disruption in academic publishing was imminent. Of course…

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