ArticleMedical journal, Armed Forces India2021
Paper mills and on-demand publishing: Risks to the integrity of journal indexing and metrics.
Article in Medical journal, Armed Forces India, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed.
- The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Is it time for a paper mill blacklist?Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2025Article
- The undeclared use of third-party service providers in academic publishing is unethical: an epistemic reflection and scoping review.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2024Article
- Integrity at stake: confronting "publish or perish" in the developing world and emerging economies.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Article
- The 1-h fraud detection challenge.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2021Review
- Retractions, Fake Peer Reviews, and Paper Mills.Journal of Korean medical science · 2021Article
- A reality check on publishing integrity tools in biomedical science.Clinical rheumatology · 2021Article
- Role of ACE2 receptor and the landscape of treatment options from convalescent plasma therapy to the drug repurposing in COVID-19.Molecular and cellular biochemistry · 2021Review
- Is there a need for creators of imaginary authors to face legal consequences?Croatian medical journal · 2020Article
- Is the validity, credibility, and reliability of literature indexed in PubMed at risk?Medical journal, Armed Forces IndiaArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
1 author.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.