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Retraction nr 34 for Didier Raoult! It's going fast for this #fraud!

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Retraction nr 33 (!!) for Didier Raoult! Harsh times for the French #fraud!

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Exactly a year ago the ThePrintIndia published an article highlighting the work by the India Research Watch regarding the problematic state of research/publishing in India. However, has anything changed in the last year? Doubtful! #fraud is omnipresent. theprint.in/ground-repor...

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Frauds go to great lengths, read the retraction notice carefully! Providing fake reviews is one thing (and known to occur) but impersonating editors to get your papers accepted? This is a new level high! #fraud! Luckily @frontiersin.bsky.social retracted this! doi.org/10.3389/fpha...

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Something does not add up here! Another one of the excellent papers Suchart Siengchin from the King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok publishes! When oh when will publishers act? @elsevierconnect.bsky.social #papermill

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What do the experts think? I spot a red 'part' on the black peak for the CC9 condition. This shows manipulation. Background (blue square) identical (there is more). Red arrows: seems that they 'glued' two parts together! I think it is all fake! doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

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Fraud really helps to build a career! Suchan Siengchin knows all about it! He is a #papermill #fraud and it made him rich/got him into top positions! His university, King Mongkut's university of Technology is most likely all in on it! isranews.org/article/isra...

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Could it be, could it be? 2 self-edited papers? Knowing Meththika Vithanage (University of SJP) there is a high chance the answer is yes! She is a #papermill author. She also likes to brag about her 2% status, but it is all based on #papermill #fraud!

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Two new retractions for G. Malafaia in the highly corrupt #papermill journal STOTEN! Notice that (as with many other papers) Damia Barcelo was the editor! Damia Barcelo himself is a paper mill author and corrupt editor. Oddly enough, the paper he coauthored with Malafaia is still not retracted!

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Could it be that the 9th author forgot to pay to be an author? Or would there be a more simple explanation? A minor mistake? Well.... One of the authors is the legendary Pau Loke Show so yeah.... #papermill #fraud? Or innocent mistake? Hello @elsevierconnect.bsky.social. Again one of your journals!

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A story on coercive citations and fake peer review by M. Angeles Oviedo-Garcia👇Publication #fraud happens in so many ways! And many publishers just don't care or don't bother to take action. The sad reality is that nothing much happens to stop the #fraud. forbetterscience.com/2025/02/12/t...

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The highly corrupt journal STOTEN has launched 3 sister journals recently to continue their #papermill #fraud. The 3 new journals have an editorial board with some of the same corrupt editors. @elsevierconnect.bsky.social just doesn't care and actively enables (supports?) publication #fraud !

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The paper that became famous for citing 13 references that were forced by the reviewers is now retracted! @elsevierconnect.bsky.social refused to take actions and close the journal! We all know it's a #papermill journal with #corrupt editors! Elsevier is hiding the #fraud! doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...

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Seriously? Is this the level of science we achieved? Hello @elsevierconnect.bsky.social? doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

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Some more suspicious work from #papermill #fraud Suchart Siengchin from King Mongkut’s University of Technology. Can you spot it? There might be more... Will @springernature.com investigate? His is using the TescOn #papermill to increase his output! doi.org/10.1007/s133...

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All error bars (per condition/color) are the same. 🤔 Yeah, if you are a #papermill idiot.... doi.org/10.1007/s126...

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Suchart Siengchin again.... Acceptable or not? Image fraud (copyright issue) or not? The image (red square) is from @wikicommons.bsky.social , authors of this paper however did not acknowledge this & now it seems it is their picture. Original here: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mu...

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Meet #papermill #fraud Suchart Siengchin from King Mongkut’s University of Technology. He uses a SEM called TescOn Vega! The only problem is that the real name is TescAn Vega! Busted! Many paper of him have the same problem: M&M does not match results!

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Meet #papermill #fraud Chinnasamy Ragavendran from Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences. He got 17 (!) retractions for his 'letter to editor' fraud. 12 shown below! @springernature.com is cleaning up his mess, but what about other publishers? He has a total of 24 retractions now!

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What's happening in India? Did they start cleaning up? Will they investigate all the #fraud going on? 👇 newsmeter.in/crime/naac-r...

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Meet Shih-Hsin Ho from the Harbin Institute of Technology. He got his PhD in 2012 and already has 317 papers(!!). He reviewed more than 1 paper per day in 2021 and 2022! He is linked to Pau Loke Show and he has already 2 retractions for his #fraud. He is a #papermill author.

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Editor Jörg Rinklebe has coauthored with 4(!) authors around the same time. Will the journal of Hazardous Materials from @elsevierconnect.bsky.social ever clean up the mess? Notice Filip Tack from University of Ghent and 2 members of the fraudulent biochar network: Daniel S. Alessi and Hailong Wang!

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The fraudulent @ElsevierConnect journal International Journal of Hydrogen Energy should have been closed down a long time ago if #Elsevier cared about quality! And @Clarivate should delist it! Some more great work by @mumumouse2.bsky.social 👇 forbetterscience.com/2025/01/28/v...

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Editing your own paper, that must be a guarantee for acceptance I guess. Govarthanan Muthusamy or is it Muthusamy Govarthanan from Kyungpook National University edits hiw own paper in the #papermill journal Environmental Pollution! #fraud @elsevierconnect.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

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When retractions start to happen and you have to alter your name a bit to try and confuse people... Abduladheem AL-Attabi or his previously used name Abduladheem Turki Jalil. What shall it be? He currently has 14 (!) retractions (Jalil name). retractiondatabase.org/RetractionSe...

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He is not only the best scientist out there, he is also a linguistic wonder! Pau Loke Show his verbal skills are out of this world! Attractive bulkheads, balance fixation, consumer sorbent & undesirable Gibbs energy to name a few. When will @elsevierconnect.bsky.social really take action?

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Denial is no longer an option! The #papermill #fraud Christophe Len from ChimieParisTech just got his first 2 retractions for fraud! Will the University Of Ghent still invite this #fraud? They have a habit of inviting frauds!

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Some more marvelous work from Christian Sonne from Aarhus university! The problem when being a #papermill #fraud is that you hardly know what you are publishing. When will @elsevierconnect.bsky.social stop this madness? Will they ever stop C. Sonne? doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

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When Christian Sonne from Aarhus University goes to work one might indeed expect that no data was used for his 'research'. He became a cotton expert for this paper (but he is an expert on dozens of topics). But who did the work? Nobody, it seems!

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These people always have an excuse! Editing your own papers (three times) and calling it 'purely unintentional and a foolish mistake.' Yeah, right! Vijay Kumar of Lovely Professional University has 2 more retractions for image duplications, I think we all know what is happening here...

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Christian Sonne from Aarhus university is another one of those geniuses that publishes in all fields. Here he is coauthoring a paper on cotton. Any chemist here who can explain me what 40 wt% water is? Despite his #papermill activities his university cleared him completely! doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

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Meet #papermill #fraud Anh Tuan Hoang from HUTECH University in Vietnam(vice president!👇). He has 5 retractions so far for his fraud. He of course published a lot more shit, but as long as publishers don't investigate publisher wide rather than journal per journal.... www.vietnam.vn/en/bi-rut-3-...

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