Impersonation Scandals Shake Academic Publishing
Identity theft is on the rise in academia. Fake authorships, fraudulent emails, and AI-generated data are putting researchers’ reputations at risk.
https://www.the-scientist.com/impersonation-scandals-shake-academic-publishing-73656
“Identity theft is a growing threat to academia.1 Fraudsters may impersonate reviewers or former colleagues to make sure articles they or their accomplices write receive favorable reviews. Journals may be hijacked, swindling authors into paying hundreds of dollars for useless publications. Or researchers may find their names on papers they never wrote.“
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