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@Wen@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

Academic publishing - a growth in spam and reviewless publishing for even more profit

This is hilarious, as well as worrying. From Retraction Watch.

https://retractionwatch.com/2026/01/30/guest-post-ai-chatgpt-generated-paper-pregnancy-math/

#Spoof #Publishing #Academia #Science #Mathematics #AI

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Guest post: Forget pickles and ice cream. I published a fake paper on pregnancy cravings for prime numbers

Image generated by Google Gemini I had grown weary of the constant stream and abuse of spam invitations to submit manuscripts to journals and to attend fake conferences on the other side of the wor…
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