Last year, Matt Spick began to notice oddly similar papers flooding in for peer review at Scientific Reports, where he is an associate editor. The papers ...

Bioengineered has lost its spot in Clarivate’s Web of Science index, as of its April update. In 2021, journal editors launched an investigation when submissions spiked and ...

The Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems (JIFS) had retracted 1,561 articles as part of a cleanup operation on likely paper mill activity. The journal, which Sage acquired in November 2023 when it bought IOS Press...

A researcher at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) added their underage child as...

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The organization responsible for allocating basic research funding in China has issued misconduct findings against 26 researchers ...

An associate professor at Moscow’s ...

Nature reported in 2023 the number of research article retractions surpassed 10,000...

In April, the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University in the Netherlands announced it would be collaborating with Wiley to establish a four-year research position focused on paper mills.