4 April 2023
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"At Wiley we take full responsibility for the quality of the content we publish across our portfolio. We have since reworked the Special Issues publishing process to close these loopholes and protect the scholarly record. Specifically, we paused publication of Special Issues, alerted other publishers and third-party providers of the presence of bad actors in their systems, increased rigorous new checks throughout our publishing workflows, issued an initial 511 retractions, and introduced additional AI-based screening tools. We are currently in the process of retracting an additional estimated 1,200 compromised papers, and we are designing a new retraction process that will help us, and potentially others, accelerate and deal with this new era of mass retractions fairly."
Read the full blog post here: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/04/04/guest-post-addressing-paper-mills-and-a-way-forward-for-journal-security/