Did you know there's a barely hidden market for authorship of fake scientific papers in conferences?
New preprint w/ @abalkina.bsky.social, @mkunesova.bsky.social, and @yaamurozturk.bsky.social :
arxiv.org/abs/2604.22458
We found 4,000+ ads & matched them to 1,720 IEEE conf. papers! ...🧵
Paper mills are a growing threat to the integrity of science, yet their penetration in conference proceedings remains underexplored despite conferences being more important than journals in some scien...