Combatting the rise of paper mills
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Growing numbers of journals have begun to recognise the issue of manuscripts and publications from paper mills, including articles that analyse genes and drug treatments in human cell lines.
“Over the past year, growing numbers of journals have begun to recognise the issue of manuscripts and publications from paper mills (73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83), including articles that analyse genes and drug treatments in human cell lines (77, 79).”
From Identification of human gene research articles with wrongly identified nucleotide sequences (2022) · cites this paper as [79]
In the main section of “Combatting the rise of paper mills” (page unavailable), Calver describes paper-mill submissions as a challenge for journals and identifies genetics analyses as susceptible to templated papers. Our copy does not establish that growing numbers of journals recognised the issue over the preceding year, or discuss drug-treatment analyses in human cell lines. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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Citation Contamination of Systematic Review Literature in the Life Sciences by Paper MillsPreprint
Tang, G., & Cai, H. (2024) · medRxiv · doi:10.1101/2024.12.26.24319521
- Authors
- Calver, M.
- Affiliations
- Murdoch University (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Calver, Mike
- Venue
- Pacific Conservation Biology
- Publisher
- CSIRO Publishing
- Published
- 2021-03-02
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-2
- ISSN
- 1038-2097 (ISSN-L)
- 2204-4604
- OpenAlex
- W3134445278
- Cited by
- 6
- References
- 9
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 0.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Pacific Conservation Biology (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- Murdoch University Research Portal (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Forest Management and Policy
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Conservation, Ecology, Wildlife Education
- Keywords
- paper mills, paper industry, conservation
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