>One final note: the "authors" of all these current 992 papers are from Chinese medical institutions, most of them appearing only once. If anyone got a raise or

>One final note: the "authors" of all these current 992 papers are from Chinese medical institutions, most of them appearing only once. If anyone got a raise or promotion based on their publication record off this stuff, what a waste of money that was. . . This is the result of mandatory publication requirements placed on the Chinese medical professionals. Gaming the system with paid fake publications is just another industry that popped up to meet this requirement.