Have you ever heard the word Paper Mill. The owner and consumer of Paper Mill are both harming our health and a great danger for society.
The other name for paper mill is and organized scientific cheating.
A paper published in the most prestigious scientific journal Nature on 23rd March 2021 Uncover Industrialized Cheating In Science through paper mills
Let us first define paper mills. There are
Companies producing fake scientific papers
Production of fake paper particularly in the field of medicine and technology is an organized crime polluting accurate wealth of scientific information about human health and new technologies
The Royal Society of Chemistry Scientific journals become a victim of the paper mills. They took serious action and
In January 2021 retracted 68 scientific paper from their highly prestigious journal
They even issued a press statement acknowledging this retraction
A press statement issued by the Royal Science Society States
20 January 2021
We are retracting 68 articles that have been published in RSC Advances, with one to be retracted from each of RSC Medicinal Chemistry and Food and Function respectively. These retractions are on the basis of what we believe to be the systemic production of falsified research, and we are one of a number of publishers to have been affected by such activity.
We take a zero tolerance approach to any alleged fraud in our journals and will be informing institutions and funders where evidence and investigation shows an individual has or may have submitted fraudulent research in their name.
Elisabeth Bik,
a research-integrity analyst from California thinks there are thousands more of these papers in the literature. The RSC’s announcement is significant for its openness, she says. “It is pretty embarrassing that so many papers are fake. Kudos to them to admit that they have been fooled
The title and reference of the paper published in Nature journal is
The fight against fake-paper factories that churn out sham science
We the BiomedGlobal and United Virologists
Believes
Paper Mills are a great threat to scientific health. Science ultimately benefits human lives and shady science factories should be shut down at the earliest
