Why bother to submit your manuscript and hope for acceptance, just fabricate your own (phony) papers in whatever journal you like

The following case ultimately led to a removal of the profile of this imposter on ResearchGate. The case involved numerous creations of fake papers that ‘just’ copy the template of legit journals and then fabricate a (non-existing) combination of volume, issue nr., page nr. etc. This leads to a Google Scholar profile like this: Unfortunately the GS profile of this imposter is still there (just search for Onipe Adabenege Yahaya). If you look at the second best cited ‘paper’ it is not published in the mentioned journal! https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362634653_Do_CEOs_influence_earnings_management See the details: And look how bluntly the whole lay-out and fake details like received and accepted dates are generated (by AI?) that makes it misleadingly real, but it isn’t: It is all even worse since the citations for this fake paper are in most cases (if not all) are from similar type of fake/fabricated papers. See https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=...