Retraction Watch: Scopus indexed a journal with a fake editorial board and a sham archive. “Scopus indexed Science of Law in July 2024. According to its profile in the database, the journal is published by the ‘Editorial Team of SoL.’ However, ‘the editorial team’ and many members of the editorial board are fake names and that such individuals do not actually exist.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/18/retraction-watch-scopus-indexed-a-journal-with-a-fake-editorial-board-and-a-sham-archive/

https://open.substack.com/pub/jamesclaims/p/how-should-we-fund-scientific-error?selection=3e0dc10a-7322-4164-8e52-3fd40db36146&r=roppe&utm_medium=ios

“The problems with #overpublication, ‘publish or perish’ culture, abusive lab environments, analytical flexibility, p-hacking, clinical trial registration games, grant front-running, intellectual capture, #NonsenseJournals, #FakeJournals, #PeerReview manipulation, moral entrepreneurship, etc. precede the present discussions of paper mills and active falsification/fabrication cases. (1/2)

Some mails from #FakeJournals are just too funny to not be shared.

I do feel tempted to highlight how much we can learn from 150 myr old fossilised rhizomes for clinical case studies. But I can't afford the APC. Sorry.