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Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds (www.nytimes.com)

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A statistical analysis found that the number of fake journal articles being churned out by “paper mills” is doubling every year and a half.

The Study, published in PNAS: The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly

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[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.cafe 4 points 2 days ago

Here’s the PDF to the paper since it was paywalled.