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It started with a misspelled word. Nature’s feature on review mills builds on the work of María Ángeles Oviedo-García, who coined the term. In summer 2023 she spotted a typo in an open peer review, searched for it, and found the same report filed by different reviewers. 1/3

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Review mills are setting off a war in academic publishing. What happens to those caught in the middle? go.nature.com/4wIPjVW

go.nature.com‘A waste of time for all of us’: caught in the crossfire of the peer-review warsReview mills — researchers who write fake referee reports with coercive citation requests — are setting off a war in academic publishing. What happens to those caught in the middle?

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4 Aug

That was the first review mill. More than 80 have been documented since, across 1,000+ reviewer reports and 100+ named reviewers. Her own account, free to read in REACH: 2/3 www.sci-integrity.com/reach/the-ma...

sci-integrity.comThe Making of a Sleuth: Inside the Hunt for Review Mills | Science Integrity

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4 Aug

Zimmer’s piece follows what comes after: the authors, journals and publishers left to sort out the damage, and the citation pressures that make review mills worth running. 3/3 @katarinazimmer.bsky.social