US House of Representatives hearing charter on paper mills
Access report at https://science.house.gov/imo/media/doc/7202022_research_misconduct_hearing_charterpdf.pdf
"Paper mills have a multitude of strategies to source the fraudulent papers they sell and/or attempt to publish for a price. One technique is to contact researchers with offers to pay to add fake co-authors to legitimate research. Another strategy is to take over the editing process by bribing editors to turn a blind eye to fraudulent papers in the submission queue or by purchasing editorial control from unscrupulous editors.(11) They have also been known to hijack entire journals either by assuming the digital identity of the journal,(12) or by using identity fraud to pose as a guest editor of a journal to guarantee that their own papers are accepted.(13)” Listen to the recording.
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