<![CDATA["Thousands of shady ads sell paper authorship for cash, large-scale investigation finds."https://www.science.org/content/article/thousands-shady-ads-sell-paper-authorship-cash-large-scale-investigation-finds]]>"Thousands of shady ads sell paper authorship for cash, large-scale investigation finds."
https://www.science.org/content/article/thousands-shady-ads-sell-paper-authorship-cash-large-scale-investigation-finds

PS: This article from _Science_ reports important news about paper mills. But apart from that, note that it draws from an preprint that hasn't been released yet. It's a preprint preprint, and from _Science_. A nice example of the ongoing transformation.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/67b13461-e778-40b3-ad32-5d76ada577f2/thousands-of-shady-ads-sell-paper-authorship-for-cash-large-scale-investigation-finds.-https-www.science.org-content-article-thousands-shady-ads-sell-paper-authorship-cash-large-scale-investigation-findsRSS for NodeMon, 25 May 2026 22:31:24 GMTSun, 26 Apr 2026 17:20:13 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to "Thousands of shady ads sell paper authorship for cash, large-scale investigation finds."https://www.science.org/content/article/thousands-shady-ads-sell-paper-authorship-cash-large-scale-investigation-finds on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:45:28 GMT]]>Update. Related:

"Opening Pandora's box: Paper mills in conference proceedings."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22458

From the abstract: "This study aims to identify papers in conference proceedings whose titles have been offered for sale on social media platforms. We collected more than 4,000 unique publication offers from more than 200 social media channels and used semi-automated methods along with human assessment to match offers with papers published in IEEE conference proceedings. We identified 1,720 papers in 286 IEEE conference proceedings, accounting for up to 23.51% of an individual conference. These problematic papers are co-authored by more than 6,500 researchers from over 3,500 affiliations in 55 countries."

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fediscience.org/users/petersuber/statuses/116488295480233507https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fediscience.org/users/petersuber/statuses/116488295480233507Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:45:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Thousands of shady ads sell paper authorship for cash, large-scale investigation finds."https://www.science.org/content/article/thousands-shady-ads-sell-paper-authorship-cash-large-scale-investigation-finds on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:30:53 GMT]]>Update. You can now see the preprint itself, on .
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24576

From the abstract: "We assemble BuyTheBy, a large, annotated dataset of timestamped, text-based paper mill advertisements from seven businesses operating out of seven different countries. The dataset consists of 18,710 individual advertisements, of which 15,839 have prices listed. Among these there are 20,598 positions listed as for sale on 5,567 unique products in 14 different product categories with 51,812 timestamped price data points."

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fediscience.org/users/petersuber/statuses/116488238127492846https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fediscience.org/users/petersuber/statuses/116488238127492846Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:30:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Thousands of shady ads sell paper authorship for cash, large-scale investigation finds."https://www.science.org/content/article/thousands-shady-ads-sell-paper-authorship-cash-large-scale-investigation-finds on Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:26:02 GMT]]>Update. _Nature_ is also covering this news, drawing from the preprint of the preprint.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01340-y

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fediscience.org/users/petersuber/statuses/116472175840925861https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fediscience.org/users/petersuber/statuses/116472175840925861Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:26:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Thousands of shady ads sell paper authorship for cash, large-scale investigation finds."https://www.science.org/content/article/thousands-shady-ads-sell-paper-authorship-cash-large-scale-investigation-finds on Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:24:52 GMT]]>Update. Here's a preprint of the preprint.
https://zenodo.org/records/19684278

"A preprint describing this dataset has been submitted to arXiv. This entry will be updated as soon as arXiv's moderation process is complete."

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