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=1651375693030309190&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=0,5&hl=en

 

Another bold example where an Elsevier journal was misused to fabricate a non-existing paper in a legit journal suggesting that it is published in it while it definitely isn’t:




Sad example of scientific misconduct. Really disappointing that someone come up with this and sad as well to experience how hard it is to get rid of this nonsense. 


PS. The examples shown here as well as other 'publications' like this are as far as I can see (in most cases) finally removed from academia.edu and ResearchGate. Although I see some of them (without a full-text version or anyway to retrieve the content of these fake papers) still present on RG.

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