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Consequences of publishing fraud: A geosciences journal placed on probation

Mark Wilson May 15, 2023 8:41 am

In the Fall of 2021, in the depths of the covid pandemic, I found a long series of fake papers in the Springer Nature Arabian Journal of Geosciences. These were blatant frauds, with nonsense titles, nonsense references, and nonsense text … Continue reading →

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On encountering a nest of fraudulent geology papers

Mark Wilson November 15, 2021 12:46 pm

This is a different kind of post! This semester I stumbled into an enormous collection of phony research papers published in the Arabian Journal of Geosciences. I became fascinated with the brazen nature of this fraud, and its large scale. … Continue reading →

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