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Wiley shuts down 19 science journals and retracts 11,000 fake papers, highlighting unchecked research waste and predatory publishing. Academic publishers profit from the publish-or-perish culture, complicit in publishing junk for profit.
The publishers are complicit, and the system is designed to publish garbage. The whole charade could easily be shut down if the publishers (and academic societies) really wanted but everyone makes more money publishing junk. https://t.co/jNdKUIqGmK
“There’s an arms race in academic publishing between AI, fraud detectors and authorship brokers.” https://t.co/BFKAV3zDnP https://t.co/f5OajtS80u
Current leaders of universities and science funders are presiding over an era of unchecked research waste, caused by the same old toxic incentives, but now turbo charged by predatory publishing *as the default* + "AI"...
