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AI slop clears peer-review

Dec 6, 2025 1 min read

Here's an image from a paper that was published by Nature Scientific Reports on November 19 and retracted on December 5: This paper made it through peer review at the journal. Let that sink in fo…

An odd paper about India's gold OA fees

Jan 2, 2024 5 min read

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A paper about open-access fees in India published recently in the journal Current Science has repeatedly surfaced in my networks over some problems with it. The paper is entitled 'Publications in…

News coverage in India of open access papers

Feb 5, 2022 3 min read

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In a study published in November 2021, Teresa Schultz, of the University of Nevada, Reno, reported that gold, green and hybrid open-access (OA) modes of publishing of scientific papers were correlated…

Preference for OA research by income group

Aug 7, 2019 4 min read

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Two researchers from Rwanda performed a “systematic computational analysis of the biomedical literature” and concluded in their paper that: … papers with authors based in sub-Saharan Africa, papers w…