Ivan Oransky

But you actually also want to make a little extra money on the side. So you take that paper that essentially it's not a paper. It's really still a manuscript. You put it up on a brokerage site or you put the title up on a brokerage site. You say, I've got a paper where, you know, there are four authors right now.

It's going into this journal, which is a top tier or mid tier, whatever it is, et cetera. It's in this field. If you would like to be an author, you, The bidding starts now or it's just, it's $500 or 500 euros or wherever it is. And then Ivan Oransky comes along and says, I need a paper. I need to get tenure. I need to get promoted. Oh, great. Let me click on this, you know, brokerage site.

It's going into this journal, which is a top tier or mid tier, whatever it is, et cetera. It's in this field. If you would like to be an author, you, The bidding starts now or it's just, it's $500 or 500 euros or wherever it is. And then Ivan Oransky comes along and says, I need a paper. I need to get tenure. I need to get promoted. Oh, great. Let me click on this, you know, brokerage site.

It's going into this journal, which is a top tier or mid tier, whatever it is, et cetera. It's in this field. If you would like to be an author, you, The bidding starts now or it's just, it's $500 or 500 euros or wherever it is. And then Ivan Oransky comes along and says, I need a paper. I need to get tenure. I need to get promoted. Oh, great. Let me click on this, you know, brokerage site.

Let me give you $500. And now all of a sudden you write to the journal. By the way, I have a new author. His name is Ivan Oransky. He's at New York University. He just joined late, but he's been so invaluable to the process.

Let me give you $500. And now all of a sudden you write to the journal. By the way, I have a new author. His name is Ivan Oransky. He's at New York University. He just joined late, but he's been so invaluable to the process.

Let me give you $500. And now all of a sudden you write to the journal. By the way, I have a new author. His name is Ivan Oransky. He's at New York University. He just joined late, but he's been so invaluable to the process.

Often they don't know about it, or at least they claim they don't know about it.

Often they don't know about it, or at least they claim they don't know about it.

Often they don't know about it, or at least they claim they don't know about it.

They do. I mean, there are a couple different versions of fraudulent with a lowercase f publications. There are publications that are legit in the sense that they can point to doing all the things that you're supposed to do as a journal. You have paper submitted. You do something that looks sort of like peer review. You assign it what's known as a digital object identifier.

They do. I mean, there are a couple different versions of fraudulent with a lowercase f publications. There are publications that are legit in the sense that they can point to doing all the things that you're supposed to do as a journal. You have paper submitted. You do something that looks sort of like peer review. You assign it what's known as a digital object identifier.

They do. I mean, there are a couple different versions of fraudulent with a lowercase f publications. There are publications that are legit in the sense that they can point to doing all the things that you're supposed to do as a journal. You have paper submitted. You do something that looks sort of like peer review. You assign it what's known as a digital object identifier.

You do all that publishing stuff. And they're not out and out fraudulent in the sense of they don't exist and people are just making it up or they're trying to, you know, use a name that isn't really theirs. But they're fraudulent with lowercase f in the sense that they're not doing most of those things.

You do all that publishing stuff. And they're not out and out fraudulent in the sense of they don't exist and people are just making it up or they're trying to, you know, use a name that isn't really theirs. But they're fraudulent with lowercase f in the sense that they're not doing most of those things.

You do all that publishing stuff. And they're not out and out fraudulent in the sense of they don't exist and people are just making it up or they're trying to, you know, use a name that isn't really theirs. But they're fraudulent with lowercase f in the sense that they're not doing most of those things.

Then there are actual what we refer to, we and Anna Abelkina, who works with us on this, as hijacked journals. We have more than 200 on this list now. They were at one point legitimate journals. So it's a real title. that some university or funding agency or et cetera will actually recognize. But what happened was some version of the publisher sort of forgot to renew their domain.

Then there are actual what we refer to, we and Anna Abelkina, who works with us on this, as hijacked journals. We have more than 200 on this list now. They were at one point legitimate journals. So it's a real title. that some university or funding agency or et cetera will actually recognize. But what happened was some version of the publisher sort of forgot to renew their domain.

Then there are actual what we refer to, we and Anna Abelkina, who works with us on this, as hijacked journals. We have more than 200 on this list now. They were at one point legitimate journals. So it's a real title. that some university or funding agency or et cetera will actually recognize. But what happened was some version of the publisher sort of forgot to renew their domain.

I mean, literally something like that. Now, there are more nefarious versions of it, but it's that sort of thing where, you know, these really bad players are inserting themselves and taking advantage of the vulnerabilities in the system, of which there are many,