Citation cartels, ghost writing and fake peer-review:

[H K]

Citation cartels, ghost writing and fake peer-review:

The old adage of "publish or perish" and its problems have been around for a long time, but I didn't think it was this bad.

 
https://www.livescience.com/human-behavior/citation-cartels-ghost-writing-and-fake-peer-review-how-fraud-is-causing-a-crisis-in-science-and-what-we-can-do-about-it-opinion