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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 6h

Citation cartels, ghost writing and fake peer-review: Fraud is causing a crisis in science — here's what we need to do to stop it www.livescience.com/human-behavi...

Citation cartels, ghost writing and fake peer-review: Fraud is causing a crisis in science — here's what we need to do to stop it

Thousands of scientific papers are retracted every year because of fraudulent activity, with both authors and journals gaming a system to gain academic acclaim through deceit, dishonesty and false…

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 9h

Was sent this Google Scholar by DM (so will respect the privacy). Looks good, h-index of 87 and 19.5K citations but some concerns have been highlighted which we'll take a look at in future posts.

Google Scholar profile: buff.ly/svRtiFq (Archived at buff.ly/chI8o3Q)

Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 14h

Protecting the integrity of university rankings buff.ly/cKnnQse

Protecting the integrity of university rankings

Addressing rare cases of attempted manipulation is built into the DNA of THE’s rankings. But we will go further, says Phil Baty

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 20h

Kendall, G. (2024) The OMICS Group and its agents: An evidence base. Journal of Scholarly Publishing, 55 (2): 219-247. dx.doi.org/10.3138/jsp-...

Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 20h

Last year I published at article that looked at OMICS (the only proven predatory publisher).

I am currently planning a follow up article and I wonder if anybody has any experiences with OMICS; either good or bad..
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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 22h

Identifying common patterns in journals that retracted papers from paper mills: a cross-sectional study - Research Integrity and Peer Review buff.ly/ke2wpGD

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 1d

Received this email from Journal of Dentistry & Oral Disorders (ISSN 2572 7710), which is published by the Austin Publishing Group.

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 1d

KPMG government report on research integrity makes up reference involving Retraction Watch founders buff.ly/bQPhfQe

KPMG government report on research integrity makes up reference involving Retraction Watch founders

An August 2023 report on research integrity by consulting firm KPMG, commissioned by an Australian government agency, contains a made-up reference, Retraction Watch has discovered. Reference 139 of…

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 1d

NIH decision looms about caps on scholarly-journal publishing fees buff.ly/2Dp0z0I

NIH decision looms about caps on scholarly-journal publishing fees

Researchers are pleased about possible limit to publishers’ profits but say the proposed change is imperfect

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 1d

Wiley retracts study stolen by reviewer, following Retraction Watch coverage retractionwatch.com/2025/10/03/w...

Wiley retracts study stolen by reviewer, following Retraction Watch coverage

A Wiley journal has retracted a paper more than a year after a researcher reported the work was hers and had been stolen by a reviewer for another journal. As we reported in July, Shafaq Aftab, now…

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 1d

“Please let me sleep”, “Thank you”

Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 2d

Journal issues speedy retraction in less than a day for ‘inadvertent mistake’ buff.ly/210042Q

Journal issues speedy retraction in less than a day for ‘inadvertent mistake’

We don’t know if it’s the fastest retraction ever, but the speed is nonetheless notable: A journal retracted a paper 22 hours after a sleuth raised concerns about the article. On August 9 jus…

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 2d

I was sent via DM (so will respect privacy) the Google Scholar profile of somebody. I looked them up on Scopus and this is the profile (articles published by year). Should this raise any red flags, or okay?

Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 2d

Two of our rescue cats, waiting by the front door, as they know somebody is about to come through it.

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 2d

Note: He has deleted several of his accounts previously, so there is no guarantee that this one will still be there, which is why we have archived it.

Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 2d

🔴Google Scholar Account: scholar.google.com/citations?hl... (archived at web.archive.org/web/20251008...)

🔴Previous archive of Google Scholar account (01 Sep 2025): web.archive.org/web/20250901...

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 2d

Links
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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 2d

and he now has 5,194,409 citations, and an h-index of 1,835 (second image).

In 39 days his citations have increased by 1,069,301 and his h-index has increased by 159.

I would love to know how he is manipulating his account (as he obviously is).

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 2d

1,069,301 more citations and an h-index increase of 159. ... and in just 39 days

On 01 Sep, I posted about Yoesoep Edhie Rachmad whose Google Scholar profile showed that he had over three million citations (first image). I checked back today (9 Oct 2025) .... 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 2d

AAAI Launches AI-Powered Peer Review Assessment System - AAAI aaai.org/aaai-launche...

AAAI Launches AI-Powered Peer Review Assessment System - AAAI

AAAI, a leading nonprofit dedicated to advancing scientific research and collaboration, launches AI-Powered peer review assessment system.

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 3d

Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report www.afr.com/companies/pr...

Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report

Deloitte will issue a partial refund to the government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a report littered with errors.

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 3d

Wiley advances Research Exchange Platform with AI-driven automation - Research Information www.researchinformation.info/news/wiley-a...

Wiley advances Research Exchange Platform with AI-driven automation - Research Information

Development will "help authors get work published faster while preserving peer review reports throughout the process"

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 3d

Just like this photograph I took in Ipoh. The umbrellas are great, but I like the shadows they cast.

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 3d

Received this email from the Journal of Clinical Case Reports Medical Images and Health Sciences (ISSN: 2832-1286).

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 3d

Meeting the challenges posed by mass-produced manuscripts and click-data science buff.ly/rLdyGpk