Paper mill cancer studies get double the number of citations as genuine papers
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Mohana Basu
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Nature CommunicationsPaper mill cancer studies get double the number of citations as genuine papersnature.comNature, Published online: 01 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01908-8 Potentially fraudulent papers often cite each other and could be inflating the impact factor of journals in which they are published.
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