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Fraudulent paper mills may be manipulating scientific citations and amplifying unreliable findings

The likely manipulation of citation numbers by research paper mills in high-impact cancer journals has been uncovered by an international team of academic researchers. Their findings point to an organized campaign to inflate citations on paper mill–produced journal articles published in established...

Fraudulent paper mills may be manipulating scientific citations and amplifying unreliable findings
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The likely manipulation of citation numbers by research paper mills in high-impact cancer journals has been uncovered by an international team of academic researchers. Their findings point to an organized campaign to inflate citations on paper mill–produced journal articles published in established molecular oncology journals.

Originally published at Phys.org

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