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Bogus scientific papers are enriching fraudsters and slowing lifesaving medical research

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Furtive commercial entities around the world have industrialized the production, sale and dissemination of bogus scholarly research.

Paper mills are profiting by undermining the literature that everyone from doctors to engineers rely on to make decisions about human lives.

Fake research confounds legitimate researchers who must wade through dense equations, evidence, images and methodologies, only to find that they were made up.

Nearly 6% of 12,000 cancer research papers screened in 2022 had errors that could signal paper mill involvement.

Paper-checking tools include Signals , by Research Signals and Clear Skies’ Papermill Alarm .

Publishers have begun to share data and technologies among themselves to combat fraud, including image fraud.

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