From The Guardian:
‘The situation has become appalling’: fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point
“Tens of thousands of bogus research papers are being published in journals in an international scandal that is worsening every year, scientists have warned. Medical research is being compromised, drug development hindered and promising academic research jeopardised thanks to a global wave of sham science that is sweeping laboratories and universities”
From Science:
Citation cartels help some mathematicians—and their universities—climb the rankings
“In response to such practices, the publishing analytics company Clarivate has excluded the entire field of math from the most recent edition of its influential list of authors of highly cited papers, released in November 2023”