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Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List

Retraction Watch has just started monitoring the mass resignation of editors from journals.

Most impactful journal on Predatory Publishing?

We list the journals that have published the most papers on predatory publishing, along with the h-index of those articles

Beall’s papers indexed on Scopus

We looked at Scopus and accessed all the papers that have been written by Jeffrey Beall.

Detecting AI generated papers: Two recent articles

We highlight two recent papers that address the topic of detecting AI generated text

Selling of authorships: Elsevier please investigate

We respectfully ask Elsevier to investigate two papers that appear to have been published after authors have paid to be an author.

1,000 ChatGPT papers have been published this year, so far

As at 22 Aug 2023 985 papers have been published with ChatGPT in the title.

We look at all aspects of ethics in publishing including (but not limited to) #PredatoryPublishing, #Papermills, #SellingAuthorships, #CitationManipulation, #ImpactFactors, #PeerReview

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