Publications from Chinese Vocational Colleges Increased by 1000-fold
The academic publications from these Chinese vocational colleges increased dramatically during last decades. 2428 articles on Elsevier and issued in 2024 have co-author(s) from Chinese vocational colleges. This number increased by nearly 1000-fold to that in the year of 2001, when only 3 articles had co-author(s) from Chinese vocational colleges. Similar trends can be observed from the publications on Wiley. 440 articles on Wiley and published in 2024 have co-author(s) from vocational colleges in China, about half a thousand times as the number in 2002.
In the meantime, high proportions (in some years, the number reached about 1/30) of these papers form Chinese vocational colleges were retracted due to academic misconduct, including but not limited to plagiarism, manipulated peer revies, as well as authorship-for-sale. In 2021, 790 articles with co-author(s) from Chinese vocational colleges were published on Elsevier journals, but 26 of them were retracted later. 356 articles with co-author(s) from vocational colleges in China were published on Wiley journals in 2023, and 14 of them were retracted until recently.
This is concerning.
