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The decision of “whether to send for peer review” is crucial in the manuscript submission process. Traditionally, thi…

Review mills sum up a new category of reviewer misconduct that flies in the face of reviewer ethics and integrity. A pa…

In November 2013, Elisabeth Bik reported five papers containing what she thought was “pretty obvious” plagiarized text…

Due to the recent wave of massification of knowledge production, as part of ‘publish or perish’ (in some cases ‘publis…