Chinese clinicians pay paper mills to publish research papers in international journals to get promoted. Investigations reveal that paper mills provide a full service, including Photoshop-generated fake research data, in a respectable peer-reviewed journal, with the clinician's name on it. The Chinese paper mills even handle submissions, peer review, and sign the copyright consent forms while pretending to be the listed authors. The paper mill operator answers the Gmail accounts of alleged corresponding authors in China.
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A new database has revealed that at least 250 scientists have amassed more than 50% of their citations from themselves or their co-authors. The study could help to flag potential extreme self-promoters, and possibly ‘citation farms’, in which clusters of scientists massively cite each other. The data set lists around 100,000 researchers and shows that the median self-citation rate is 12.7%.
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