The authors describe the Royal Society of Chemistry's strategy against paper mill publications. "Paper mill companies produce fake data and images, and compile these into manuscripts that researchers can buy authorship on, often paying a higher rate for first or corresponding author positions." Obviously researchers (and therefore educators) have to rethink the whole concept of reporting research in the form of research papers, especially as it is a metric that can be easily gamed with the right tools and services.
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