"These are just a small fraction of the 300,000 conference papers IEEE publishes each year, but some meetings may be particularly vulnerable. At IEEE conferences that published at least 25 such papers, they made up more than 10% of all the meeting’s articles."
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Hundreds of paper-mill papers peddled in ads were later published
More than one-fifth of some IEEE conferences’ papers appear linked to authorship for sale