List of Authorship-for-Sale Offering

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Author: WU Guangheng

Founder and Chair of the 5GH Foundation

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

Document ID: 5GH-WuGH-20240702.001

Publication Date: 2024.07.02

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

Students from Hubei University Founded and Operated the Hudiandian Paper Mill

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”).


A Malaysian Paper Mill Is Selling Authorship on Chinese Social Media

The 5GH team found that a Xiaohongshu account (ID: 1132185804) registered in Malaysia was selling authorship of academic papers


Misconduct Researcher List

Researchers with academic misconduct records are listed. The cases of these academic misconducts were investigated by the 5GH team and our allies. If you (1) want to propose some other misconduct researchers, and/or (2) have comments on the researchers listed, please contact us at: 5GH@5gh.org.cn