Scholarly publishers must become increasingly wary about journals that achieve staggeringly high increases in their publication rates, says the academic sleuth behind hundreds of recent retractions.
The warning from Nick Wise, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge, comes after Hindawi announced that it was examining accusations that its journal Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing may have published dozens of bogus papers produced by paper mills.
It follows an investigation by Dr Wise into the journal, the output of which expanded from about 200 papers a year to 2,429 papers in 2022 to date, achieved largely by the creation of special issues on certain topics, most of which published about 200 papers each.
