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Hindawi and Wiley to retract over 500 papers linked to peer review rings
- shishy 4y agoIt's wild, apparently at the latest Peer Review conference a lot of the focus was on paper mills. I'm so curious what goes into identifying these -- e.g. if it's a technical or a social process -- and so on. I know for example a lot of it is by reviewing comments from peer reviews (which unfortunately aren't always public / open) [1]. Certainly some of the co-authors were unaware (?), but will be affected. Totally crappy situation. 1. https://retractionwatch.com/2021/02/09/20-ways-to-spot-the-work-of-paper-mills/ https://retractionwatch.com/2021/02/09/20-ways-to-spot-the-w...
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