Anna Abalkina
@abalkina.bsky.social
Researcher at FU Berlin •Nature's 10 2024 •Creator of RW #Hijackedjournals checker •Scientific misconduct •Plagiarism • #papermills •Corruption in higher education
This invitation to contribute to the J. of S.Health (see a screenshot) with video and PPT materials reminded me of an anecdote. A professor comes to give a lecture about love.
Love, he begins, can take many forms. For example, between a man and a woman. Students: Slides, please. 1/2
Love, he begins, can take many forms. For example, between a man and a woman. Students: Slides, please. 1/2
November 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This invitation to contribute to the J. of S.Health (see a screenshot) with video and PPT materials reminded me of an anecdote. A professor comes to give a lecture about love.
Love, he begins, can take many forms. For example, between a man and a woman. Students: Slides, please. 1/2
Love, he begins, can take many forms. For example, between a man and a woman. Students: Slides, please. 1/2
Alexandra Freeman, Octopus. Why a format of an article is not how it should be done?
November 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Alexandra Freeman, Octopus. Why a format of an article is not how it should be done?
Publishing is a victim of research assessment.
November 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Publishing is a victim of research assessment.
Berlin Science Week. Oxford-style debate. Should we publish in academic journals?
November 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Berlin Science Week. Oxford-style debate. Should we publish in academic journals?
New descriptive statistics tables in T&F journals produced by a paper mill. Do you notice anything wrong with them?
#papermills
#papermills
November 7, 2025 at 9:10 AM
New descriptive statistics tables in T&F journals produced by a paper mill. Do you notice anything wrong with them?
#papermills
#papermills
I'm very grateful to DomainTools for providing access to their instruments to analyse web domains. Thanks to this tool I have just found two hijacked journals which will be added to the Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker during the next update.
October 30, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I'm very grateful to DomainTools for providing access to their instruments to analyse web domains. Thanks to this tool I have just found two hijacked journals which will be added to the Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker during the next update.
The study which, I believe, is from a paper mill that I'm looking at, publishes this kind of table. Negative values of GDP (in the paper it's GDP but not a growth rate), strange SD values, negative interest rates (which can be in the case of Japan but min should be -0.1 but not -0.03). #papermills
October 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
The study which, I believe, is from a paper mill that I'm looking at, publishes this kind of table. Negative values of GDP (in the paper it's GDP but not a growth rate), strange SD values, negative interest rates (which can be in the case of Japan but min should be -0.1 but not -0.03). #papermills
Sightseeing day around Germany! Such wonderful weather, and I found a treasure, the city of Tangermünde, right in the heart of Germany.
October 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Sightseeing day around Germany! Such wonderful weather, and I found a treasure, the city of Tangermünde, right in the heart of Germany.
Happy to be in the Tagesspiegel office which hosts 100 scientists of Berlin and Brandenburg of 2025.
October 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Happy to be in the Tagesspiegel office which hosts 100 scientists of Berlin and Brandenburg of 2025.
The paper mill probably forgot to include several sections in the paper, including the data and results. The Methods section mentions a survey that is never described in the paper. Immediately after the methods section comes the conclusion. Yet, the paper was still published.
October 13, 2025 at 7:57 AM
The paper mill probably forgot to include several sections in the paper, including the data and results. The Methods section mentions a survey that is never described in the paper. Immediately after the methods section comes the conclusion. Yet, the paper was still published.
Finally I get invitations from hijacked journals to publish with them. It will go immediately to Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker. Please, send me more.
October 9, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Finally I get invitations from hijacked journals to publish with them. It will go immediately to Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker. Please, send me more.
I’m honored to be named one of Tagesspiegel’s “100 Researchers of Berlin” for 2025, featured in today’s category “Swimming against the current.” Grateful to be recognized alongside inspiring researchers who challenge convention and push boundaries
October 8, 2025 at 6:07 AM
I’m honored to be named one of Tagesspiegel’s “100 Researchers of Berlin” for 2025, featured in today’s category “Swimming against the current.” Grateful to be recognized alongside inspiring researchers who challenge convention and push boundaries
There’s a striking pattern among the top journals targeted by an Indian paper mill. All have sharply increased their publication number in recent years.
Is this growth driven by publisher goals, a surge in submissions due to AI, or both?
#papermills
Is this growth driven by publisher goals, a surge in submissions due to AI, or both?
#papermills
October 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
There’s a striking pattern among the top journals targeted by an Indian paper mill. All have sharply increased their publication number in recent years.
Is this growth driven by publisher goals, a surge in submissions due to AI, or both?
#papermills
Is this growth driven by publisher goals, a surge in submissions due to AI, or both?
#papermills
I found a watermark of an Indian paper mill, which helped me identify 100+ papers over the weekend. So far, 490 papers have been detected. Most authors are from India, China, and Saudi Arabia. Only 4 papers have been retracted. Papers are full of fake data, yet they still get published. #papermills
September 30, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I found a watermark of an Indian paper mill, which helped me identify 100+ papers over the weekend. So far, 490 papers have been detected. Most authors are from India, China, and Saudi Arabia. Only 4 papers have been retracted. Papers are full of fake data, yet they still get published. #papermills
How many and what kind of mistakes can you spot in this table?
September 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
How many and what kind of mistakes can you spot in this table?
the problem is that the papers are smth like this.
September 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
the problem is that the papers are smth like this.
I’m looking at a specific paper mill in India. So far, I have detected 339 papers, 105 of which were published in 2025. Only the biggest publishers are being targeted. Only two papers have been retracted.
This is the dashboard of a paper mill.
lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/36...
#papermills
This is the dashboard of a paper mill.
lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/36...
#papermills
September 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I’m looking at a specific paper mill in India. So far, I have detected 339 papers, 105 of which were published in 2025. Only the biggest publishers are being targeted. Only two papers have been retracted.
This is the dashboard of a paper mill.
lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/36...
#papermills
This is the dashboard of a paper mill.
lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/36...
#papermills
I guess the data were made uo
September 25, 2025 at 10:42 AM
I guess the data were made uo
Catch of the day. Do you find anything wrong here?
September 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Catch of the day. Do you find anything wrong here?
Paper mills discover new dimensions. A Ukrainian one paved the way for sleuthing and published a misconduct report about the vice minister of education. An Indian one offers nursing jobs in Germany.
#papermills
#papermills
September 2, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Paper mills discover new dimensions. A Ukrainian one paved the way for sleuthing and published a misconduct report about the vice minister of education. An Indian one offers nursing jobs in Germany.
#papermills
#papermills
Relaxing from work. Cooked up some buzara mussels.
August 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Relaxing from work. Cooked up some buzara mussels.
Great initiative by Wiley! The publisher has started marking retracted papers in reference lists. When you click on the retraction notice, you can also see the date and reason for the retraction.
All publishers should adopt this practice. But also screen references during submission.
All publishers should adopt this practice. But also screen references during submission.
August 3, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Great initiative by Wiley! The publisher has started marking retracted papers in reference lists. When you click on the retraction notice, you can also see the date and reason for the retraction.
All publishers should adopt this practice. But also screen references during submission.
All publishers should adopt this practice. But also screen references during submission.
Our semester is officially over! This week, we wrapped up with a department workshop where I gave the final talk of the semester on opportunistic data in research integrity studies. Now it’s finally time to enjoy summer! and write grant proposals.
July 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Our semester is officially over! This week, we wrapped up with a department workshop where I gave the final talk of the semester on opportunistic data in research integrity studies. Now it’s finally time to enjoy summer! and write grant proposals.
Jana Christofer and I wrote a piece on #papermills for Laborjournal. We discuss challenges of paper mills and AI for scientific publishing. Science needs immediate solutions to correct it and prevent it from massively produced fraud.
@image-integrity.bsky.social
www.laborjournal.de/rubric/essay...
@image-integrity.bsky.social
www.laborjournal.de/rubric/essay...
July 15, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Jana Christofer and I wrote a piece on #papermills for Laborjournal. We discuss challenges of paper mills and AI for scientific publishing. Science needs immediate solutions to correct it and prevent it from massively produced fraud.
@image-integrity.bsky.social
www.laborjournal.de/rubric/essay...
@image-integrity.bsky.social
www.laborjournal.de/rubric/essay...