REACH Issue 5 is out for #OpenAccessWeek, and this year's theme, "The Cost of Knowledge," runs through most of its pages. See who pays for openness and what that money buys, how repositories build trust and what it would take to sustain the commons, and more! 🔗 www.sci-integrity.com/reach

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Online by @baptscc.bsky.social @aidybarnett.bsky.social and David Causeur Suspected distortion of citations in high-impact cancer journals 🧪 #PaperMills that produce & sell manuscripts may be manipulating citations, but the extent of any manipulation is unknown. 1/5 www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

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Now peer reviewed! doi.org/10.1080/0898...

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I'm excited to share our new preprint on paper mills in conferences. We explored 200+ social media channels that promoted offers for sale and identified 1,720 papers published in 286 IEEE conferences. We found some 🚩: six-author co-authorship and affiliation diversity arxiv.org/abs/2604.22458

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Jennifer Byrne and the United2Act team have called for funding and coordinated research on paper mills, arguing that the problem belongs alongside emerging pandemics and climate change as a global challenge 🧵1/4 @jabyrnesci.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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