Description: Three reportedly fake journals published by Addleton Academic Publishers manipulated Scopus rankings by extensively cross-citing each other and using AI-generated papers filled with buzzwords. These journals, placed in the top 10 of Scopus's 2023 CiteScore philosophy list, featured fake authors, affiliations, and grant numbers. This manipulation pushed legitimate journals to lower tiers, affecting academic evaluations and awards.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Fake publications , Auricle Global Society of Education and Research and Addleton Academic Publishers developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed University hiring committees , University faculty , Scopus , Academic journals and University job candidates.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
724
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2024-06-12
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
retractionwatch.com · 2024
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Recently our philosophy faculty at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, like many institutions around the world, introduced a ranking of journals based on Elsevier's Scopus database to evaluate the research output of its employees for awards …
Variants
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