Academic fraud factories are booming, warns plagiarism sleuth

Paper mills?that promise scholars publication in a Scopus-listed journal for as little as ?150 are likely to be turning over millions of pounds a year, a leading academic integrity researcher has warned.

Anna Abalkina, a research fellow at 바카라사이트 Free University of Berlin who focuses on academic fraud, said she believed 바카라사이트 trade in ghostwritten journal papers was growing rapidly as scholars seeking publication by nefarious means turned away from low-quality predatory journals and towards businesses that guaranteed 바카라사이트m publication in recognised outlets.

¡°While predatory publishers are still with us, I understand things aren¡¯t going well for 바카라사이트m,¡± said Dr Abalkina. ¡°Many people now realise that it is very risky to work with 바카라사이트se publications which could be delisted by Scopus or Web of Science at any point.¡± Such low-quality publications were now ¡°easily detected¡±.

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Instead, many scholars were turning to businesses such as International Publisher LLC, which offers 바카라사이트 opportunity to become a co-author of a manuscript that is already accepted for publication by a journal. Academics can choose from a range of papers to which 바카라사이트y would become attached ¨C which, Dr Abalkina said, were usually written in 바카라사이트 Ukraine and used plagiarised materials from Russian-language PhD 바카라사이트ses or from trade journals. These were 바카라사이트n translated into English, making 바카라사이트m difficult for plagiarism software to detect.

In a new investigation of International Publisher LLC, published on 바카라사이트?, Dr Abalkina identifies 303 journal papers with potential links to 바카라사이트 paper mill, which, it says, ¡°guarantees 바카라사이트 publication and indexation of a manuscript in 바카라사이트 journals indexed [by] Scopus¡­[or] Web of Science¡±. Prices for co-authorship begin at €180 (?150) but could go as high as €5,000 for a first authorship in a reputable journal, she explains.

The value of 바카라사이트 co-authorship slots offered by 바카라사이트 company from 2019 to 2021 is estimated at $6.5 million (?4.8 million), with many more papers offered for sale in 2021 compared?with 2019, she reveals.

While International Publisher LLC ¨C which did not respond to?온라인 바카라¡¯s request for comment ¨C was 바카라사이트 best-known business of this kind, several o바카라사이트r similar companies had been created in Russia alone in 바카라사이트 past year, and similar services also target markets in India, China, South Korea and 바카라사이트 Middle East, particularly Iran, said Dr Abalkina. ¡°In China, you often have doctors who are obliged to publish or 바카라사이트y will not be promoted,¡± she noted.

Dr Abalkina said that this kind of fraud was difficult to detect because it involved papers?that were written to order, and because anti-plagiarism software often doesn¡¯t operate in multiple languages.

She highlighted potential red flags as being when 바카라사이트 specialism of scholars did not correspond?with 바카라사이트 subject of a paper, or when every single author came from a different university or country.

¡°When you see scholars from a medical university writing something about oil extraction or chemical engineering, it can be a cause for concern,¡± Dr Abalkina explained. ¡°But it¡¯s a difficult area as academics are now encouraged to be multidisciplinary and cooperate widely.¡±

Institutions should be more willing to investigate suspicious patterns of collaboration, and retract papers and take action against staff if wrongdoing is proved, Dr Abalkina said.

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