Dozens of workers at a paper mill in eastern Victoria will be stood down from New Year’s Day due to a shortage of materials. Some 37 workers at the Opal Australian Paper mill in Maryvale would be impacted immediately, according to an official from the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining & Energy Union. “There are another 120 workers…
Journal Publisher Retracts Over 300 Chinese-Affiliated Papers, Citing Fake Peer-Review Process
May 15, 2022
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China has frequently been at the forefront of peer-review scandals, with numerous fake-paper factories a growing concern in the global scientific community. The country has retracted more scientific papers because of faked peer reviews than all other countries and territories combined, according to a scientific journal watchdog. The scientific publisher Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)…
Scientific Ghostwriting Factories Booming in China
Scientific publishers are waking up to the fact that fabricating and trading of academic papers is occurring on a massive scale in China. An official media outlet recently revealed how illegal paper mills operate to get fake manuscripts published, including in top international journals. In China, a hard-core metric of publishing academic papers is required…
Rescue Operation Continues for Second Day at Quebec Mill, Two Workers Remain Trapped
More than 24 hours after a multi-storey scaffold collapsed at a Quebec paper mill, rescue crews continue to search for two workers trapped in the debris. Quebec provincial police, who are supporting the rescue operation, say rescuers still have not made contact with the two workers but that it remains a rescue operation. The incident…
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