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Quick post – papers for sale

Well, this is much more elaborate than I could ever have imagined: For Sale: “Your Name Here” in a Prestigious Science Journal – Scientific American.  Seems that there are services out there to help people write, in essence, bogus scientific papers filled with pithy somewhat reasonable sounding phrases about certain topics.  Seems we could all use some more comprehensive full text analyses of papers to try and flag such activities.

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Open Access and Scholarly Publishing

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Innovating Communication in Scholarship (ICIS)