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"With help from drug companies, Omics International is making millions as it roils the scientific community with sketchy publications." You need to read this article.
Paper retracted by Elsevier. Will they look at the other 195?
Elsevier retracted a paper. One of the authors has published another 195 papers with that publishers. Should each of those be investigated?
Following a tweet, we look at a paper that had many citations to one particular scholar and also to the journal he edits.
We look at the number of papers published by Sayed Mohamed Eldin published in 2022-2024. Prior to 2022, we cannot find any publications.
High number of citations to a journal, as well as to papers authored by the EiC of that journal
We look at an article that appears to cite a high number of papers from a journal that is difficult to tracks down and it also cites a high number of papers authored by the EiC of that journal.
We summarize an article entitled "Who should pay for open-access publishing? APC alternatives emerge"