Two Potential Cases of Authorship-for-Sale on Surface Review and Letters

Dear editors on Surface Review and Letters,

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]: Metal-Supported Solid Oxide Fuel Cell: Synthesis and Electrochemical Properties Analusis using Optimization Method

Title of paper [2]: DRL-Based Kinetic and Thermal Energy Property Detection for Welded Joint Performance Analysis

Recently, we noticed an advertisement on Telegram channel offering authorship of these two papers, therefore, we are asking you for a further investigation about them.

Thank you for your attention to this mater, we are looking forward to your reply.








Author: WU Guangheng

Founder and Chair of the 5GH Foundation

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

Document ID: 5GH-WuGH-20240613.001

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

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