I Published a Fake Paper in a ‘Peer-Reviewed’ Journal

A dubious education journal invited me to submit a manuscript that would undergo “rigorous” review. It was far too easy.

I Published a Fake Paper in a ‘Peer-Reviewed’ Journal GettyImages-1249092318-edit-1094x613

I Published a Fake Paper in a ‘Peer-Reviewed’ Journal GettyImages-1249092318-edit-1094x613

Back in April, I received a strange email from a pair of academic journals inviting me to submit my research to one of their latest issues. The email was written in a jarring mix of fonts, and riddled with formatting mistakes and bungled idioms. The editor who sent it to me had, inexplicably, attached a handbook on Covid-19 hospital protocols, a document that detailed at length the precise mechanism of sealing the dead in a “leak-proof corpse wrapping sheet.”

It was the kind of email you might expect to receive from a long-lost uncle who wants to send you a barrel of gold bullions if you could, kindly, just wire him the cost of the shipping via Western Union. Except they didn’t want my money — at least not yet. They wanted a research manuscript.

https://undark.org/2020/11/26/fake-paper-predatory-journal/

I Published a Fake Paper in a ‘Peer-Reviewed’ Journal

I Published a Fake Paper in a ‘Peer-Reviewed’ Journal

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