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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>This article is three weeks old, but I didn’t hear about it at the time. It is behind a paywall, but says that publishers have been flooded with fake papers generated by AI:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.wsj.com/science/academic-studies-research-paper-mills-journals-publishing-f5a3d4bc?st=7coxnydp5togwhy&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink">https://www.wsj.com/science/academic-studies-research-paper-mills-journals-publishing-f5a3d4bc?st=7coxnydp5togwhy&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><h1 align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:9.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h2 align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;text-align:center;box-sizing: border-box;--headline-font-color: var(--primary-text-color);--headline-link-hover-color: var(--color-blue);direction:var(--article-direction);font-size:var(--typography-subheading-standard-s-font-size);line-height:var(--typography-subheading-standard-s-line-height);font-weight:var(--typography-subheading-standard-s-font-weight);color:var(--primary-text-color)'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Wiley to shutter 19 more journals, some tainted by fraud<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:16.5pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"var(--font-family-exchange)",serif;color:black'>By <span class=css-nyr2iw-authorcontainer><a href="https://www.wsj.com/news/author/nidhi-subbaraman">Nidhi Subbaraman</a></span></span><span class=css-nyr2iw-authorcontainer><span style='font-family:"var(--font-family-exchange)",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:16.5pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"var(--font-family-exchange)",serif;color:black'>Follow</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>May 14, 2024 8:00 am ET<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=css-k3zb6l-paragraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"var(--article-font-family)",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=css-k3zb6l-paragraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"var(--article-font-family)",serif;color:black'>Fake studies have flooded the publishers of top scientific journals, leading to thousands of retractions and millions of dollars in lost revenue. The biggest hit has come to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/WLY">Wiley</a>, a 217-year-old publisher based in Hoboken, N.J., which Tuesday will announce that it is closing 19 journals, some of which were infected by large-scale research fraud. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=css-k3zb6l-paragraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;box-sizing: border-box;--summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color);--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color);color:var(--primary-text-color);direction:var(--article-direction);font-size:calc((17 / var(--article-base-font-size)) * var(--article-text-size-scale) * 1rem);font-weight:var(--article-font-weight);line-height:calc(1.58824);overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"var(--article-font-family)",serif;color:black'>In the past two years, Wiley has retracted more than 11,300 papers that appeared compromised, according to a spokesperson, and closed four journals. It isn’t alone: At least two other publishers have retracted hundreds of suspect papers each. Several others have pulled smaller clusters of bad papers… Wall Street Journal<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=css-k3zb6l-paragraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"var(--article-font-family)",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=css-k3zb6l-paragraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"var(--article-font-family)",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=css-k3zb6l-paragraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"var(--article-font-family)",serif;color:black'>Sheesh. We now can’t tell which of the papers is real and which are fake. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=css-k3zb6l-paragraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"var(--article-font-family)",serif;color:black'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='box-sizing: border-box;--summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color);--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color);z-index:-1'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>