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spottingthespot.bsky.social @spottingthespot.bsky.social · 19h

Something tells me @tkes.bsky.social isn't going to get invited by Victor Sunday Aigbodion for sunday roast! Another retraction for #papermill #fraud Victor Sunday Aigbodion!

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spottingthespot.bsky.social @spottingthespot.bsky.social · 2d

Amen to that too! Well let's see where he ends! If nature-springer keeps going as they are, he will suffer a lot more. And then hopefully Elsevier will wake up as well.

spottingthespot.bsky.social @spottingthespot.bsky.social · 2d

Did you by any chance see my mail?

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spottingthespot.bsky.social @spottingthespot.bsky.social · 2d

LOL Normally they always 'wave' with the COPE guidelines, well according to these, you should be notified! Oh well, to be honest, I am already glad they are retracting! Somehow you always find out anyway, so I don't worry too much about it

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spottingthespot.bsky.social @spottingthespot.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely! However, I do wish other publishers, look at you @elsevierconnect.bsky.social , start working on his junk as well! This idiot should have a place in the top 3!

spottingthespot.bsky.social @spottingthespot.bsky.social · 2d

It happened again! @tkes.bsky.social strikes again! One more retraction for #papermill #fraud Victor Sunday Aigbodion from the University of Nigeria Nsukka

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spottingthespot.bsky.social @spottingthespot.bsky.social · 3d

Correction *of which 185 were until nown shown to be problematic 😅 Someone like him barely publishes real work. He should most definitely end up high on the @retractionwatch.com leaderboard if all publishers did their job!

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spottingthespot.bsky.social @spottingthespot.bsky.social · 4d

Well well, @tkes.bsky.social did it again! #papermill idiot Victor Sunday Aigbodion from the University of Nigeria Nsukka got another retraction! This #fraud has published nothing but made up papers. Finally one publishers, @natureportfolio.nature.com, is catching and retracting.

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spottingthespot.bsky.social @spottingthespot.bsky.social · 6d

Well, wiley is known to whitewash fraud at large scale, so no surprise here.

Fabian Wittmers - PubPeer: Archasia Belfragei @academic-integrity.bsky.social · 7d

(3/x) Almost all papers were flagged by Mu Yang (@mumumouse2.bsky.social) and me this year. Multiple articles were reported to Wiley, 50+ are currently being investigated by Elsevier's ethics team. Wiley's team looked at the article in (1) and send me this email which left me very confused:

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spottingthespot.bsky.social @spottingthespot.bsky.social · 15d

Something like this should be an immediate and easy retraction, yet, I fear it might not be.

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spottingthespot.bsky.social @spottingthespot.bsky.social · 16d

Retraction nr. 11 for the legendary Indian #papermill #fraud Abhijit Dey who once publishes 300 papers in a single year!

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spottingthespot.bsky.social @spottingthespot.bsky.social · 17d

How many father-son duos are there that have retractions? Thomas Len, son of the infamous #papermill #fraud Christophe Len (big buddies with major fraud Rafael Luque) got his first retraction! His father, C. Len has already 2 retractions for his fraud.

spottingthespot.bsky.social @spottingthespot.bsky.social · 23d

True too!
Hopefully more and more people will chip in and ultimately there will be an impact, but slowly, very slowly lol

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spottingthespot.bsky.social @spottingthespot.bsky.social · 23d

I guess that sums it all up! Publishers make money. However, one can also state the same about institutes/universities. They also mostly ignore it/cover it up. Ultimately, people like us waste a lot of time for pretty much nothing🤷‍♂️

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spottingthespot.bsky.social @spottingthespot.bsky.social · 24d

They hardly do. I warned dozens of journals, nobody cares. Publishers also don't listen. Furthermore, many journals have corrupt editors involved in the fraud itself.

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spottingthespot.bsky.social @spottingthespot.bsky.social · 24d

Well Diederik Stapel should have already given people/publishers/journals in that field enough warning but they never learn so a lot of fraud will happen for sure.

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spottingthespot.bsky.social @spottingthespot.bsky.social · 27d

Dealing with retractions and fraud, the case of China. A paper published in @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social that discusses the problems and potential solutions.

Reckoning with Retractions in Research Funding Reviews: The Case of China👇
doi.org/10.3390/publ...

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spottingthespot.bsky.social @spottingthespot.bsky.social · Aug 30

Turns out that @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social keeps whitewashing #fraud! Unbelievable. Could this be because Pau Loke Show his university is threatening with a lawsuit against @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social ??

spottingthespot.bsky.social @spottingthespot.bsky.social · Aug 30

Isn't this a sister journal of the corrupt 'journal of cleaner production'?

spottingthespot.bsky.social @spottingthespot.bsky.social · Aug 30

Exactly. The damage he has and still is doing, is massive. The US has major issues and it will take ages to rebuild and MAGA will not just go away no matter what Trump/republicans do.

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spottingthespot.bsky.social @spottingthespot.bsky.social · Aug 30

Trump trying to influence @wikipedia.org. No surprise there. If it doesn't fit his narrative he will attack it. Dictator you say? What has America become?

Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · Apr 26

Reminder to donate to Wikipedia every time the Trump regime tries to censor them

donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ways_to...

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spottingthespot.bsky.social @spottingthespot.bsky.social · Aug 26

The professional #papermill #fraud Saurabh Kumar Jha suffers another retraction! He has published nothing but paper mill junk over the last few years. @manchester.ac.uk
www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/17...

spottingthespot.bsky.social @spottingthespot.bsky.social · Aug 26

The proof that @relxhq.bsky.social
/ @elsevierconnect.bsky.social doesn't care about ethics. The EIC, Cecília Maria Almeida, was found guilty of manipulation, editing her own paper, in short #fraud. Her paper got retracted, yet a year later she is still EIC! Let this sink in!

spottingthespot.bsky.social @spottingthespot.bsky.social · Aug 25

Some more top notch work from Ümit Ağbulut from
@yildizedu.bsky.social! According to the authors figures A, B and C are not the same! 👇Does anyone believe these authors?😂🤣 Ümit Ağbulut and his gang are papermill authors!
@tvonlar.bsky.social @nowhabertv.bsky.social pubpeer.com/publications...

spottingthespot.bsky.social @spottingthespot.bsky.social · Aug 22

Rashid Iqbal and his gang of #papermill authors are truly amazing! Why not put a random number to spice things up rather than just randomly putting letters to indicate significant differences.👇And it still gets published @elsevierconnect.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...