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The impact of fake studies on scientific research

How paper mills are wreaking havoc in academic journals

The impact of fake studies on scientific research
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Katherine Holmes
24/04/2025 13:15 ‧ 1 month ago | StarsInsider

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If you are not in the habit of reading academic journals, you may not have given much thought to whether their content is important. However, it is difficult to overstate the importance of academic articles. Indeed, they are used to inform decision-making about all sorts of important issues that affect our everyday lives.

Unfortunately, there is a growing problem in academia with the publication of fake academic studies. Particularly in the field of medicine, bad actors are managing to publish fake content and thereby undermine the research of real researchers doing very important work.

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