I've found what looks like major fraud in an Elsevier journal. I've written the editor, but given the scale, I doubt they will take action (quickly). Any advice about next steps: letting associate editors at the journal know? Twitter threads? a preprint detailing the problems?
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The basics: a life science / medical journal has recently published 50+ unprofessional, irrelevant articles by a few specific authors. Many are vaguely COVID-themed, but many are about Star Trek (seriously).
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One article is on the topic of my thesis (leading me down this rabbit hole). That article is also significantly plagiarised -- from an article in a different journal, of which the plagiarist is an editor.
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This might be an active attempt to show low quality publishing standards at the journal, but the scale feels too big for that.
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@ academics who know more than me:
@anthrolog@jm_aburto@ikashnitsky@GKountourides@RebeccaSear@GidMK@RetractionWatch6 replies 0 retweets 7 likesShow this thread
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