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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/...

journals.plos.orgA call for research to address the threat of paper millsResearch paper mills are covert organizations that provide low quality or fabricated manuscripts to paying clients. This Perspective, written by members of the United2Act Research Working Group, propo...

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More recently at #WCRI2026, Renee Hoch presented PLOS data on large paper mill cases showing a sharp rise among articles published in 2020, another spike in 2021 and high levels ever since, and argued that AI makes paper mill content easier to produce and harder to detect. 2/4

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At the Science Integrity Alliance, we support the people and initiatives working to keep the scientific record trustworthy, and we give visibility to their important work so that researchers, editors, institutions and policymakers can act on what is already known. 3/4 www.sci-integrity.com

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Read more about the misuse of AI by paper mills in REACH. 4/4 www.sci-integrity.com/reach/the-9t... #researchintegrity #papermills #REACHmag