"Thousands of shady ads sell paper authorship for cash, large-scale investigation finds."
https://www.science.org/content/article/thousands-shady-ads-sell-paper-authorship-cash-large-scale-investigation-finds
PS: This article from _Science_ reports important news about paper mills. But it draws its info from an #arXiv preprint that hasn't been released yet. A preprint preprint, and from _Science_.
#Misconduct #PaperMills #ScholComm
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