Fraudulent scientific research is now being produced and published on a large scale, with some unethical researchers colluding with unethical editors to attain the prestige that comes with publication ...

Twice during his Senate confirmation hearings at the end of last month, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., America’s new health secretary, brought up a peer-reviewed study by a certain “Mawson” that had come out ...

Labbé receives funding from the European Research Council. He has also received funding from the French National Research Agency (ANR), and the U.S. Office of Research Integrity. Labbé has been in ...

Guillaume Cabanac receives funding from the European Research Council (ERC) and the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). He is the administrator of the Problematic Paper Screener, a public platform ...

From fabricated research to paid authorships and citations, organized scientific fraud is on the rise, according to a new Northwestern University study. By combining large-scale data analysis of ...

A statistical analysis found that the number of fake journal articles being churned out by “paper mills” is doubling every year and a half. By Carl Zimmer For years, whistle-blowers have warned that ...

I’m a founder in deep technology, and for myself and others in this industry, carefully reading scientific papers is a cornerstone of credibility that affirms our expertise and forties our standing.

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 ...