Nature  18 January 2023 An international team of researchers (Germany, UK) have uncovered hundreds of online advertisements that offer the chance to buy authorship on research papers to be published in reputable journals. Publishers and journals are investigating the claims and have retracted dozens of articles over suspicions that people have paid to be named as authors, despite not participating in the research. In July 2022, the International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning retracted 30 papers linked to adverts on International Publisher. In May 2022, Springer Nature retracted a paper for the first time over suspicions that some of […]