A Hungarian PhD student is invited to collaborate on papers whilst at a conference, then it all gets out of hand. An impressive article by Gábor Stöckert building on my recent investigation into an Iraqi papermill. telex.hu/komplex/2024...

Plagizált, visszavont cikkek, gyanús hivatkozások: Magyarországra is megérkeztek a tanulmánygyárak

Az Óbudai Egyetem két kutatója is belekeveredett egy iraki „papírgyár” cikkeibe. Az ilyen vállalkozásoktól hivatkozásokat vagy szerzőséget lehet vásárolni, és alapjaiban kezdik ki a tudományos publiká...

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The earliest advert for Migration Letters I can find is from August 2023 by an authorship/publication broker, there are several others.

1. Publisher renames journal, doesn't tell scopus? 2. Publisher abandons old site address. 3. Kittisak and his gang buy the address, abolish peer review, guarantee publication. 4. Profit until scopus notice/care and remove journal.

It looks like the journal renamed to Migration & Diversity. journals.tplondon.com/md/indexweb.archive.org/web/20230529...

Kittisak Jermsittiparsert is an editor of multiple predatory journals. forbetterscience.com/2023/11/13/w...

We don’t need no education, We don’t need no thought control

"Of course the sentient rubber-stamps guest-editing Special Issues on behalf of papermills would have accepted anything - they don't give two tugs on a dead dingo's dick about content " - Smut Clyde

The guest editors responsible for the most retracted articles.