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most citedPublication and collaboration anomalies in academic papers originating from a paper mill: evidence from a Russia-based paper mill

102 citations · 147 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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BuyTheBy: A dataset of 18,710 text-based paper mill advertisements with 51,812 timestamped prices

Reese AK Richardson, Spencer S Hong, Anna Abalkina

The study of paper mills and similar businesses operating in the market for academic and education fraud services is frustrated by the lack of market price data on their various of…

cs.DL2026

Opening Pandora's box: Paper mills in conference proceedings

Anna Abalkina, Marie Kunešová, Yagmur Ozturk +1

Paper mills are a growing threat to the integrity of science, yet their penetration in conference proceedings remains underexplored despite conferences being more important than jo…

cs.DL2022★ 6 cited

Improper legitimization of hijacked journals through citations

Anna Abalkina, Guillaume Cabanac, Cyril Labbé +1

The goal is to study the prevalence of citajacked papers: papers in authentic scientific journals citing hijacked journals, in academic literature. A Citejacked detector was design…

cs.DL2021★ 102 cited

Publication and collaboration anomalies in academic papers originating from a paper mill: evidence from a Russia-based paper mill

Anna Abalkina

This study attempts to detect papers originating from the Russia-based paper mill International publisher LLC. A total of 1009 offers published during 2019-2021 on the 123mi.ru web…

cs.DL2021★ 39 cited

Detecting a network of hijacked journals by its archive

Anna Abalkina

This study describes a method to detect hijacked journals based on the analysis of the archives of clone journals. This approach is most effective in discovering a network of hijac…