A not-so-harmless experiment in predatory open access publishing - Martin - 2016 - Learned Publishing - Wiley Online Library
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Summary:
"Key points
- Publishing articles in predatory or low quality open-access journals has been proven to be easy.
- In the presented case study, the editor replaced the entire submitted manuscript with plagiarized texts, without explicitly informing the authors.
- When strongly motivated to publish, editors and publishers may fraudulently change articles to make them more publishable.
- Replacing the entire content of an article cannot be interpreted as a misguided attempt to improve article quality.
- Plagiarism should not be solely blamed on authors when editors may be the culprits."