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Marc Lensink
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CNRS scientist computational molecular biology. Mostly talking about life, travel, science and board games, unless it's something else.
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6. The integrity measures used to contain systematic scientific fraud are dwarfed in scale by the problem itself.
(B) Annual global scientific activity as measured by items labeled as “journal article” or “conference proceeding article” in OpenAlex (47), as retracted articles reported by Retraction Watch, as PubPeer-commented articles and as suspected paper mill products. We make use of the linear trends observable in the log–linear plot to extrapolate these observations for the period 2020–2030. We show the 95% CI using shaded bands. The number of suspected paper mill products shows the largest growth rate, with a doubling time of 1.5 y. (C) Annual global scientific activity captured by WoS as measured by the number of actively publishing journals, the number of journals deindexed annually by WoS, the number of journals with retractions, the number of journals with PubPeer comments, and the number of journals with suspected paper mill products. It is visually apparent that deindexing now occurs at a level far below the level of occurrence of journals publishing suspected paper mill products. These patterns hold for Scopus and MEDLINE (SI Appendix, Figs. S21–S23).
August 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Love that game!
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