Transfers of journal ISSNs can be highly suspicious and may be orchestrated by bad guys. The head of ISSN of the Library of Congress encourages to report #hijackedjournals to the Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker.

An important paper chronicling the absurd and wrongful retraction of an article about predatory publishing at the behest of vexatious legal pressure. #Scientometrics and COPE should still be ashamed. academic.oup.com/rev/advance-ar…

Today in less than two hours! Stay tuned if you are interested in paper mills.

On April 18 (9:00 am PT, 18:00 pm CET), I'm delighted to give a virtual talk at the Metrics International Forum Stanford University. I'll be speaking on 'Paper mills: challenges, current understanding and unanswered questions'. Info about the link can be found here metrics.stanford.edu/metrics-intern…

Anche! Professoressa Gino. Embattled Harvard honesty professor accused of plagiarism
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Our paper 'The landscape of biomedical research' is out in Patterns journal! Great job by Rita González Márquez.

cell.com/patterns/fullt…

Amazing interactive explorer by Ben Schmidt / @[email protected] from Nomic AI: static.nomic.ai/pubmed.html

For details see my original Twitter thread: x.com/hippopedoid/st….

41 Expressions of Concern for Didier Raoult, in the pipeline at 'New Microbes & New Infections'.

H/t Encoelia furfuracea at @pubpeer.