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Gaming the peer review system: a sophisticated review mill in medicine highlights the need to ensure reviewer integrity

2025-10-23

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<h4>Background</h4> A review mill is a network of researchers who game the peer review system to apparently boost their citations. Members write generic review reports containing suggestions for citations to the work of those in the review mill. Here we report compelling evidence for a review mill in the field of gynecologic oncology. <h4>Methods</h4> The first example of a peer-review report from a review mill...

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Literature Corpus work: 9fe07952-6a10-5040-8018-16e5eee7de1a
DOI: 10.1101/2025.10.20.25338343

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