Paper Mills Have Flooded Science With 400,000 Fake Studies, Experts Warn

A group of scientific integrity experts is calling for urgent action to combat 'paper mills' -- companies that sell fraudulent research papers and fake peer reviews. In a Nature comment piece published January 27, the experts warn that at least 400,000 papers published between 2000 and 2022 show signs of being produced by paper mills, while only 55,000 were retracted or corrected during that period.

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