Science’s fake-paper problem: high-profile effort will tackle paper mills (original) (raw)

EXCLUSIVE: Poor-quality studies are polluting the literature — a group will study the businesses that produce them to stem the flow of bogus research.

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  1. Katharine Sanderson
    1. Katharine Sanderson is a reporter for Nature in London.

A high-profile group of funders, academic publishers and research organizations has launched an effort to tackle one of the thorniest problems in scientific integrity: paper mills, businesses that churn out fake or poor-quality journal papers and sell authorships.

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Nature 626, 17-18 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00159-9

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