Industrialized Cheating in Academic Publishing: How to Fight “Paper Mills”
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How to Test a Journal Editor's Role in a Paper Mill
Anna had already gone well beyond that I have to say she's got a spreadsheet with you know I think now it's gone to a couple of thousand papers all with these same sorts of characteristics. She's found more recently another journal this one was the Journal of Community Psychology it's a Wiley journal where another little cluster occurred. It does suggest that the editor was either asleep at the job or was involved in the paper mill and it was hard to believe this because it looked again like a perfectly reputable editor. But he did notice and he just desqu rejected our paper and said it was a very superficial paper which is hilarious given what he detected.
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