Frontiers | Integrity at stake: confronting “publish or perish” in the developing world and emerging economies
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This paper explores the widespread unethical practices in scientific publishing, including the sale of authorships, the proliferation of “paper mills,” and the misuse of artificial intelligence to produce fraudulent research Spanish chemist who astonishingly published one article every 37 h; or the
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- This paper explores the widespread unethical practices in scientific publishing, including the sale of authorships, the proliferation of “paper mills,” and the misuse of artificial intelligence to produce fraudulent research
- Spanish chemist who astonishingly published one article every 37 h; or the case of a Japanese psychiatrist who in 1 year published 115 articles
- Regarding the use of AI, more than 100 articles have been identified as likely partially written by ChatGPT (18)
- In response to the evolving landscape of scientific publishing, universities worldwide have intensified their efforts to climb the academic rankings. Rankings such as Scimago, Shanghai Ranking, and Times Higher Education, are considered a measure of quality worldwide (24).
- Added to this is the multiple affiliations that came to light with the suspension of one of the researchers at the University of Córdoba in Spain for affiliating himself with institutions such as King Saud University and the People’s Friendship University of Russia, which underscores the broader issue of researchers falsely claiming affiliations to...
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