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Stephen Downes

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It is of course not a surprise to find three fake philosophy journals making it into the top 10 in Scopus rankings. This sort of fraud is rampant. But note how they accomplish this: "The trick is simple: The Addleton journals extensively cross-cite each other." It's a trick not limited to AI-generated journals, and results in some very unserious work being taken seriously.

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