Recently, the 5GH team found 3 academic papers with manipulated figure(s). All these papers were co-authored by the founder(s) of the Wuhan Hudiandian Technology Co., Ltd. (武汉胡电电科技有限公司), HU Shengnan (胡胜男), and/or LI Mengying (李梦颖). Further investigation suggests the Hudiandian company or its founder(s) sold the data, which was part of HU’s and LI’s researches at Hubei University when they were postgraduate students under the supervision of Dr. WU Huimin (吴慧敏). The 5GH team would like to name this paper mill as “Hudiandian Paper Mill” (“胡电电论文工厂”).
We report cases of author-editor conflict on Science of the Total Environment. Two authors (GAO Li and LI Xuan) and two editors (WANG Qilin and Warish AHMED) were involved in these cases, which raise concerns about the quality, reliability and publication ethics of the journal and the papers published on it. We call for publisher’s investigations on these and any further papers.
According to posts on X, the authorship of an accepted manuscript by IEEE Access is on sale by a Facebook user
This dataset provides the turnover time for different journals. Three turnover time, namely submitted-to-accepted (S-to-A), accepted-to-published (A-to-P), and submitted-to-published (S-to-P), are provided in this dataset.
The 5GH team found that a Xiaohongshu account (ID: 1132185804) registered in Malaysia was selling authorship of academic papers
Recently, we noticed potential misconduct on "Potential Misconduct on Journal of Integrative Neuroscience".
Recently, the 5GH team fond image duplication in a paper, titled "Bound-state electrons synergy over photochromic high-crystalline C3N5 nanosheets in enhancing charge separation for photocatalytic H2 production", and authored by SHEN Yu et. al.
Recently, the 5GH team and independent investigator(s) examined Santosh's papers on Geoscience Frontiers (GEOSCI FRONT), Gondwana Research (GONDWANA RES), Geosystems and Geoenvironment (GEO GEO), Geological Journal (GEOL J) from 2020 to recently, and found 65% (99/152) of the pepers wih authore-editor conflict.
This message is from WU Guangheng with the 5GH Foundation, an independent research agency in Hong Kong. I am writing this e-mail in the hope of expressing our concerns about two papers, claimed to be submitted to your journal.
Title of paper [1]: Optimizing Supercapacitor Performance with LSCF, ST, BST, and Coconut Shell Activated Carbon
Title of paper [2]: Assessing the Toxicological Impact of Exhaust Gas Particulate Matter Across Various Fuels During Cold Temperature Operation
Using the data from Retraction Watch [1], we made an analysis on the retracted papers from 18 Chinese medical universities, and found that the numbers of retraction increased with the year of publications, highlighting the worrying academic misconduct in China's medical universities.
It is a list of authorship-for-sale offering, collected by the 5GH Foundation with help from individuals and teams all over the word. We are publishing this list, asking for any clue about the publications of these articles. If you find any information about the publication of any article on this list, please contact us at 5GH@5gh.org.cn, or the publishers/journals.
According to the data from UN, Republic of Korea has the highest number of researchers per million, and the number reached 9081 in the year of 2021, followed by Sweden (8131), Finland (7871), Demark (7708), and Norway (7228).
