petersuber<p>We could applaud <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/TaylorAndFrancis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TaylorAndFrancis</span></a> for pausing submissions at a journal that seems to be publishing a lot of fraudulent papers. Or we could ask why it waited until now. <br><a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/journal-plagued-problematic-papers-likely-paper-mills-pauses-submissions" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/content/article/jo</span><span class="invisible">urnal-plagued-problematic-papers-likely-paper-mills-pauses-submissions</span></a><br>(<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/paywalled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>paywalled</span></a>) </p><p>"Out of a sample of nearly 900 papers _Bioengineered_ published from 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟬 through 2023, one-quarter showed signs of image manipulation or duplication." (Emphasis added.)</p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Misconduct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Misconduct</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PaperMills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PaperMills</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Publishers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Publishers</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ScholComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScholComm</span></a></p>