Paper mills have placed at least 1,720 sold papers into IEEE conference proceedings, with some conferences showing over 23% problematic content involving thousands of authors across 55 countries.
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Papers from suspected boosting accounts on ResearchGate frequently share identical reference lists, allowing some authors to receive a substantial fraction of their citations from these coordinated groups.
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Opening Pandora's box: Paper mills in conference proceedings
Paper mills have placed at least 1,720 sold papers into IEEE conference proceedings, with some conferences showing over 23% problematic content involving thousands of authors across 55 countries.
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Citation Farming on ResearchGate: Blatant and Effective
Papers from suspected boosting accounts on ResearchGate frequently share identical reference lists, allowing some authors to receive a substantial fraction of their citations from these coordinated groups.