An Accepted IEEE Access Manuscript Is on Sale

According to posts on X, the authorship of an accepted manuscript, titled “Autism Spectrum Disorder Detection through Automated Machine Learning” (manuscript id: Access-2024-07333), is on sale by a Facebook user Kashif Sultan Rao (facebook.com/kashif.sultan.rao).

By providing an acceptance letter to the 5GH team, Sultan claimed that the manuscript was recently accepted by IEEE Access. Sultan asked for 1995 USD to add an additional author on the paper, and the 5GH team provided the information of a false author (name: Hengz Wu, affiliation: North Hong Kong University, e-mail: 1942397891@qq.com) to Sultan, in order to test whether he can do it. The 5GH team is waiting the respond from the journal.

Information on the Facebook shows that Sultan studied at University of Science and Technology Beijing for his Ph.D. degree. The 5GH team is investigating on his papers with our international allies.








Author: WU Guangheng

Founder and Chair of the 5GH Foundation

E-Mail: wu@5gh.org.cn

Document ID: 5GH-WuGH-20240418.001

中文

Publication Date: 2024.04.18

This article is licensed to the 5GH Foundation under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License

Academic Misconduct Conduct: ZHANG Hongquan

Name: ZHANG Hongqian

Affiliation: Peking University


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