Analysis Reveals Paper Mills Inflate Citation Metrics in Oncology Journals
UNVERIFIED·Primary source · Nature
A study of 33,159 papers found that suspicious articles produced by paper mills are cited twice as often as genuine research.
Coordinated citation manipulation is inflating impact metrics in molecular oncology journals.
AI tools identified over 4,000 potentially fraudulent papers across 19 high-impact journals.
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01 — What / Thesis
Analysis Reveals Paper Mills Inflate Citation Metrics in Oncology Journals
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02 — Who / Subject
Adrian Barnett (Queensland University of Technology) and colleagues
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03 — Where / Locus
Global
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04 — When / Temporality
May 2026
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