Possibly. From the economist (http://www.economist.com/news/china/21586845-flawed-system-judging-research-leading-academic-fraud-looks-good-paper http://www.eco

Possibly. From the economist (http://www.economist.com/news/china/21586845-flawed-system-judging-research-leading-academic-fraud-looks-good-paper http://www.economist.com/news/china/21586845-flawed-system-j... [2013]): As China tries to take its seat at the top table of global academia, the criminal underworld has seized on a feature in its research system: the fact that research grants and promotions are awarded on the basis of the number of articles published, not on the quality of the original research. To be clear, there are plenty of high quality Chinese academics writing high quality papers, and I read somewhere that the Chinese government is well aware of the problem with fake journals and trying to address it, but it looks like the Chinese scientific community has even bigger problems of perverse incentives than elsewhere in the world.