The research community around the world needs to come together and pool both material and intellectual resources to fight the growing menace of research paper mills, in order to protect the integrity and value of research, the World Conference on Research Integrity heard recently.
The research community around the world needs to come together and pool both material and intellectual resources to fight the growing menace of research paper mills, in order to protect the integrity and value of research, the World Conference on Research Integrity heard recently.
There are a number of international initiatives committed to fighting the vice, but there are not enough and they are insufficiently resourced to conduct a sustained global campaign against paper mills.
As a result, campaigns to create awareness about paper mills are inadequate and the technical capacity needed by the relevant actors – including journal editors, reviewers, funders, researchers, and higher learning and research institutions – is not enough to win this ‘war’.