Academic fraud factories are booming, warns plagiarism sleuth

Firms that sell co-authorship on papers accepted by reputable journals are likely turning over millions of pounds a year

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January 19, 2022
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January 19, 2022
Jack Grove
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#1 Submitted by nash_3 on January 20, 2022 - 1:46pm
Why single out China to say if they don't publish they don't get promoted? I have sat on many tenure committees over 4 decades in the USA where exactly the same rule is applied. It is generally accepted in academia that if you don't publish you don't get promoted.

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