Fake It Until You Break It: The pay-to-publish paper mills exploiting the over metrification of Science

Podcast: Cybercrimeology · Cybercrimeology

Opublikowano: 2025-05-01

Notes: Paper mills are fraudulent commercial enterprises that fabricate scientific papers and sell authorship, citations, and other academic credentials—often at scale.Sarah Eaton and Sabina Alam first collaborated through COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) and later worked together in United2Act, an international initiative focused on tackling paper mills.The conversation draws parallels between scientific paper mills and contract cheating in higher education, both of which undermine academic integrity for financial gain.Eaton and Alam discuss how metrics-based performance systems in universities and publishing environments create conditions ripe for abuse.Publishers and universities historically avoided transparency, but th...