Researcher Abduladheem Turki Jalil is currently affiliated with the University of Thi-Qar in Nasiriyah, Iraq. His first published paper appears to be a survey on breast cancer from 2019. Jalil’s publications then took off, rising exponentially to more than 100 in 2022. Jalil’s massive output has not failed to attract attention. In 2022, then-sleuth Nick Wise began flagging the researcher’s papers on PubPeer, providing screenshots of Facebook ads selling authorship of articles that matched several of Jalil’s publications.

In 2025, Jalil began calling himself Abduladheem Al-Attabi on his papers. The website of the foundation he founded, Nabea Al-Ajyal, which publishes several journals, hosts conferences and offers editorial services to researchers, also referred to him as Al-Attabi until recently. But after Retraction Watch contacted him, the name of the foundation’s CEO and owner changed to “Mustafa Tareq Shanshool” on the website.

Jalil did not respond to Retraction Watch request for comment. But following Retraction Watch stories on research fraud in Iraq this fall and subsequent national media attention to such issues, his Google Scholar profile was removed and his name on ORCID hidden.

Source https://retractionwatch.com/2026/01/06/dogged-by-retractions-iraqi-researcher-and-publisher-uses-a-different-name/

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