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Publication and collaboration anomalies in academic papers originating from a paper mill: evidence from Russia

@article{Abalkina2021PublicationAC,
  title={Publication and collaboration anomalies in academic papers originating from a paper mill: evidence from Russia},
  author={Anna Abalkina},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2021},
  volume={abs/2112.13322}
}

• A. Abalkina
• Published 2021
• Business
• ArXiv

This study attempts to detect papers originating from the Russian paper mill “International publisher” LLC. A total of 975 offers published during 2019-2021 on the 123mi.ru website were analysed. The study allowed us to identify at least 303 papers (31%) that are potentially linked to the paper mill. Further evidence of suspicious provenance from the paper mill is provided: matches in number of coauthorship slots, year of publication, country of the journal, country of a coauthorship slot and similarities of abstracts. This study also demonstrates collaboration anomalies and the phenomenon of suspicious collaboration in questionable papers and examines the predictors of the Russian paper mill. The value of coauthorship slots offered by “International Publisher” LLC in 2019-2021 is estimated at $6.5 million. Since the study analysed a particular paper mill, it is likely that the number of papers with forged authorship is much higher.