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Publishing ethics in the era of paper mills

15 Oct 2020

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In 2013, a journalist working for the journal Science launched a ‘sting’ operation to highlight perceived flaws in the peer-review processes operated by Open Access journals ([Bohannon, 2013][1]). Biology Open (BiO) was one of the Open Access journals tested – the submitted ‘nonsense’

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PMID: 33115756
DOI: 10.1242/bio.056556

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