Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research, with an estimated 55,000 scholarly papers retracted to date and many more potentially in circulation
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Frederik Joelving/Retraction Watch, Cyril Labbe/Universite Grenoble Alpes, Guillaume Cabanac/ Institute de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse
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Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research, with an estimated 55,000 scholarly papers retracted to date and many more potentially in circulation
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