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Paper mills often produce papers with fabricated data or sell authorships to researchers.Credit: Lane Erickson/Alamy An investigation has identified more than 1,500 research articles produced by a network of Ukrainian companies that could be one of Europe’s largest paper mills — businesses that produce fake or low-quality research papers and sell authorships. Anna Abalkina, a research-integrity sleuth and social scientist …

With the start of a new month, the calendar in the CEE region will be busy again. Today, GDP figures for the second quarter in Poland and Turkey and PMIs across the region will be released. We will also see GDP data this week – in Hungary tomorrow and in Romania on Friday. More interesting will be the release of …

The publisher Frontiers has begun retracting a batch of 122 articles across five journals after an investigation found a network of authors and editors engaged in “unethical actions” such as manipulating citations and reviewing papers without disclosing conflicts of interest.  The publisher’s research integrity team has identified more than 4,000 articles linked to the network in journals owned by seven …

Last week, Steam quietly announced a new rule banning “certain kinds of adult-only content” that “may violate the rules and standards set forth by Steam’s payment processors and related card networks and banks.” Following this, reporter Ana Valens wrote a series of stories on Vice’s video games vertical Waypoint about an organization called Collective Shout that took credit for the …