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JoeMerchant [soylentnews.org] writes:

Paper mills are bribing editors at scholarly journals, Science investigation finds | Science | AAAS [science.org]

One evening in June 2023, Nicholas Wise, a fluid dynamics researcher / scientific fraud buster, was digging around on shady Facebook groups where he found someone calling themselves Jack Ben, of a firm whose Chinese name translates to Olive Academic, offering journal editors large sums of cash in return for accepting papers for publication...

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Being from pulpwood country, the title led me to believe I would be reading a story [telegram.com] about how "Big Cardboard [pulpandpapercanada.com]" was bribing [environmentalpaper.org] academia to publish research beneficial to their industry [qz.com] - as "Big Oil [greenpeace.org]" is so famous [nature.com] for... Nope, this [mdpi.com] is a different twist, broader [nature.com] and even more troubling [editage.com].

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