The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2420092122
"Our results reveal some of the strategies that enable the entities promoting scientific fraud to evade interventions. Our final analysis suggests that this ability to evade interventions is enabling the number of fraudulent publications to grow at a rate far outpacing that of legitimate science."
"Discussions with different stakeholders suggest that many currently perceive systematic fraudulent science as something that occurs only in the periphery of the “real” scientific enterprise, that is, outside OECD countries. Accumulating evidence shows that systematic production of low quality and fraudulent science can occur anywhere (84–89). Moreover, as we show in this study, large North American and European publishers and the editors they appoint provide credibility to these practices. The impact of these practices is likely to be felt much more immediately and strongly in countries with inchoate scientific enterprises but is in no way restricted to them."
