Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving ...
The number of scientific papers flagged as fraudulent has been growing. Now a new paper sheds light on how it’s being done. Researchers found loose networks of unscrupulous editors working with ...
The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has raised the alarm over upsurge of cases of individuals using fake academic papers to secure government jobs. According to the commission's quarterly ...
A growing tide of fake papers is flooding the scientific record and proliferating faster than current checks can rid them from the system, scientists warn. The source of the trouble is “paper mills,” ...
A report from the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) tracked the equivalent of 1,828 shipping containers of illegal wood sourced in the state of Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon. Nearly 3% of this ...
Unsupervised machine learning techniques have proven useful in identifying fake research papers submitted to the arXiv preprint server. Approximately 500 preprints are receiving daily by the automated ...