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Predatory publishers’ latest scam: bootlegged and rebranded papers
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“In addition, for fraudulently attributed articles, the ease of their production means that they can be churned out in a large volume, without needing to resort to the more cumbersome method of populating fake journals by bootlegging and modifying existing material [9].”
From False authorship: an explorative case study around an AI-generated article published under my name (2025) · cites this paper as [9]
In the citing paper
“First, to create completely fake articles ostensibly by authors affiliated with well-known universities, probably to lend credence to the journal, as is also done with the bootlegging and rebranding of existing papers [9].”
From False authorship: an explorative case study around an AI-generated article published under my name (2025) · cites this paper as [9]
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Research works printed but not linked: 5
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Siler, K., & Larivière, V. (2022) · Research Policy · doi:10.1016/j.respol.2022.104608 · Cited by 70
Self-citationFalse authorship: an explorative case study around an AI-generated article published under my name
Spinellis, D. (2025) · Research Integrity and Peer Review · doi:10.1186/s41073-025-00165-z · Cited by 37
Metadata
- Authors
- Siler, K., Vincent-Lamarre, P., Sugimoto, C. R., & Larivière, V.
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2021-10-26
- Volume
- 598
- Issue
- 7882
- Pages
- 563-565
- ISSN
- 0028-0836
- 1476-4687
- Cited by
- 47
- References
- 1
- Language
- en
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