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Predatory journals recruit fake editor

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An investigation finds that dozens of academic titles offered 'Dr Fraud' — a sham, unqualified scientist — a place on their editorial board. Katarzyna Pisanski and colleagues report.

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  1. Piotr Sorokowski is head of the Institute of Psychology at the University of Wrocław, Poland.,

    Piotr Sorokowski

  2. Emanuel Kulczycki is head of the Scholarly Communication Research Group at the Institute of Philosophy at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.,

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  3. Agnieszka Sorokowska is a researcher at the Institute of Psychology at the University of Wrocław, Poland, and the Smell &amp,

    Agnieszka Sorokowska

  4. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Taste Clinic, TU Dresden, Germany.,

    Agnieszka Sorokowska

  5. Katarzyna Pisanski is a researcher in the School of Psychology at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, and the Institute of Psychology at the University of Wrocław, Poland.,

    Katarzyna Pisanski

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Sorokowski, P., Kulczycki, E., Sorokowska, A. et al. Predatory journals recruit fake editor. Nature 543, 481–483 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/543481a

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