That earning would not be "Halal" anyway :) I had been made such offers from anonymous emails but I choose not to engage and in one case forwarded the email to EiC. I will be surprised if any editor is not approached by these people.
Thanks, Larry. Vinnie offers 500 papers per year at £5,000/paper. This would make $2.5M/yr. However, there is no way I could hide 500 rubbish papers among the 700-800 papers we expect to publish in 2025. I could probably publish 50 fraudulent papers per year between now and the end of my tenure as an editor.
That earning would not be "Halal" anyway :) I had been made such offers from anonymous emails but I choose not to engage and in one case forwarded the email to EiC. I will be surprised if any editor is not approached by these people.
Well played, but your maths are weak. The offer comes to $2.5M/yr. I'll be glad to accept a % of the difference. ;-)
Thanks, Larry. Vinnie offers 500 papers per year at £5,000/paper. This would make $2.5M/yr. However, there is no way I could hide 500 rubbish papers among the 700-800 papers we expect to publish in 2025. I could probably publish 50 fraudulent papers per year between now and the end of my tenure as an editor.
But I'm glad you won't, and I won't be getting a cut.
Nicely played
What happened afterward?
reporting in real time, emails to the respective deans went out a few minutes ago
What if the respective deans (themselves) are not in a good shape (i.e., from "Research Integrity and Ethics" point of view)?
from past experience, there are two types of dean -- ones that respond immediately and ones that never respond
it's been 4 days, so I guess these deans don't care