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Did you know that 2025 Nature papers are not as hot as 2025 papers in... Separation and Purification Technology? Congratulations, @ElsevierConnect - shameless fraud pays off!

@SocialImpurity As if we need even more student-written review papers.

How about you guide students/postdocs through writing review papers, and then you don't have to "let" them be first authors!

The most common-sense tip is, "Use your f--king common sense," but whom am I teaching here?

@Spottingthespot @WileyGlobal @UniofAdelaide @latwec @C0PE x.com/wool_yeah/stat…

@Spottingthespot @WileyGlobal @UniofAdelaide @latwec @C0PE Top Wiley's paper mill expert, or so; see united2act.org/phase-1/ Any paper mill trash can be saved if there's enough desire. Should've been kicked out after the Hindawi pig's breakfast. But still there, overlooking hindawization of other journals in the stable.

Doubtful @WileyGlobal will care. They support and enable the highly corrupt M. Santosh from @UniofAdelaide who has almost all his articles edited/reviewed by his friends. Wiley allows it!

Academics coming out in support of the ayatollah regime and accusing Israel and the US of islamophobia in 3... 2... 1...

@Spottingthespot x.com/wool_yeah/stat…

These frauds are really something. Florian J. Stadler is a #papermill #fraud who authors fake papers & acts as a corrupt editor and yet here he is, complaining on linkedin about not being able to find reviewers. For his crappy papers he does find reviewers pubpeer.com/search?q=Flori…

@maoviedogarcia @MDPIOpenAccess @qeios @PLOSONE @UnivRoma3 @WesternCaspianU @arkinuniversity Not an unknown character. pubpeer.com/search?q=%22a+…

#MiniReviewMill 69 #FakeReview #CoerciveCitation @MDPIOpenAccess @qeios @PLOSONE Reviewers 🔹Cosimo Magazzino @UnivRoma3 🇮🇹 @WesternCaspianU 🇦🇿 @arkinuniversity 🇹🇷 🔹Anonymous 🔷11 verbatim review reports 🔷20 Cosimo Magazzino’s articles to be cited 🧵

@Integrity88_PhD > If it’s insignificant they would not received randomly scattered citations. 🤦‍♂️ > are generally well written and great results. Which are visible only to members of the same Chinese junk vortex. And occasionally to familiar-shaped paper mill reviews. Trolls gonna troll. Bye.

@wool_yeah If it’s insignificant they would not received randomly scattered citations. I agree there are cartels. But journals like applied catalysis B are generally well written and great results. Also who decides what’s insignificant??

How about an alternative take? That App Cat B is a write -n-cite-only venue for fairy tales from China, which no one will ever bother to read, let alone reproduce. Except maybe some sleuths.

@Integrity88_PhD Nature does have some problems. Yet - Nature is still very much capable of filtering out nothingburgers like "X-doped Y postprocessed via Z for enhanced reaction R." The trick: 80+ casual refs to similarly shaped nothingburgers, as if they were selected by a weak-ish kNN / DSSM.

@wool_yeah Not true at all. You are implying that nature is the holy grail when they are also problematic. Strongly disagree it is a terrible journal. Fairy tales from China is a strong claim. Just because it is Chinese doesn’t mean it is low quality.

@Clarivate cc @MicrobiomDigest @lonnibesancon @Spottingthespot @maoviedogarcia and whoever is still staying at this barren place.

Just tagging @Clarivate 'cuz that's the right thing to do. No expectations, though.

Did you know that 2025 Nature papers are not as hot as 2025 papers in... Separation and Purification Technology? Congratulations, @ElsevierConnect - shameless fraud pays off!

Some butt-level wisdom here. doi.org/10.1016/j.rinp…