Rising Tide of Scientific Fraud Challenges Journals and Researchers
TL;DR
A Northwestern University study reveals that organized scientific fraud, involving sophisticated networks and paper mills, is rapidly increasing, threatening the integrity of scientific literature and calling for urgent reforms in the research community.
Topics:healthscience#academic-publishing#paper-mills#research-integrity#research-misconduct#science#scientific-fraud
- Organized scientific fraud is growing at an alarming rate, study uncovers Phys.org
- Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds The New York Times
- Scientific Journals Can’t Keep Up With the Flood of Fake Papers From Paper Mills - WSJ The Wall Street Journal
- Criminal gangs fake science papers for money The Telegraph
- Fighting coordinated publication fraud is like ‘emptying an overflowing bathtub with a spoon,’ study coauthor says Retraction Watch
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