Ten Challenges that Threaten the Integrity of Scholarly Publishing
Introduction Scholarly publishing is one of the cornerstones of our global knowledge base. It enables the free exchange of ideas, […]
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What is a Digital Object Identifier (DOI)? | Is it an Indicator of Quality?
A DOI is a permalink to a scientific paper. It says nothing about the quality of a publisher, a journal or a paper. In this article we look at what a DOI is and what it means for predatory publishing.
Why (and how) would somebody write more than a letter every day to scientific journals?
We ask why somebody would publish more than one letter a day in scientific journals and what workflow this would entail.
The publication record of Sayed Mohamed Eldin
We look at the number of papers published by Sayed Mohamed Eldin published in 2022-2024. Prior to 2022, we cannot find any publications.
Should it take three years to investigate a paper?
Ethical concerns were raised about three years ago, saying that a paper contained fake meta-analysis. The publisher says that it is still under investigation. We give our thoughts.
How big is science’s fake-paper problem?
A recent Nature paper presented the issue of paper mills. We gives out take home messages from this paper.
Elsevier changed a published paper without any explanation
Elsevier carried out a “stealth change” to a published paper. We look at the details.
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
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.