it is sad to read this news for all scientist, but we could not avoid it and have to face the problem. what is the reason for producing these non-sense papers.
According to recent news from nature, there're about 120 are found as fake paper, and most of them from china. most of these paper are generalized by a software called scigen.
there are several things we should think about,
1, why some scientist willing to produce such fake paper?
2, how these fake paper pass the examination of peer reviews?
3, what could we do to improve such problem?
we should re-think the publishing systems. not only you, me, but also the government, publishers, and reviewers....
original news could be found in the following link:
http://www.nature.com/news/publishers-withdraw-more-than-120-gibberish-papers-1.14763
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