The sheer number of fraudulent papers being produced in China, sadly, is affecting the trust in research coming from there[1]: > “The effect is devastating,” s

The sheer number of fraudulent papers being produced in China, sadly, is affecting the trust in research coming from there[1]: > “The effect is devastating,” says Li, about the impacts on Chinese science. “The literature environment published in Chinese is already ruined, since hardly anyone believes them or references studies from them.” “Now this plague has eroded into the international medical journals,” he adds. The fact that people use paper mills also affects China’s reputation globally, says Futao Huang, a Chinese researcher working at Hiroshima University in Japan. Reputation and trust do matter, even in (what should be) objective disciplines with (what should be) reproducible experiments. [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00733-5?error=cookies_not_supported&code=9597def1-08b2-4348-bce7-c9b4f4c48e7b https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00733-5?error=coo...