Previously, the 5GH Team discovered that HU Shengnan (胡圣男) and LI Mengying (李梦颖), two students from Hubei University, were operating the Hudiandian Paper Mill and selling their data to third parties. In our previous report, we analyzed three articles. However, additional problematic articles have since been identified. To date, the team has found 12 articles that share overlapping data or spectra with HU and LI's work from Hubei University. Although some of these 12 articles were not co-authored by HU, LI, or any other members of Hudiandian Technology Co., Ltd., we believe they are connected to the Hudiandian Paper Mill.
Recently, the 5GH Team analyzed the Research Articles published on the journal "Nano TransMed", and found 20% (4 of 20) of them has problematic data/spectra.
Recently, the 5GH Team obtained a document suggesting abnormal data patterns in this article
Tow of the reviewers for the article, the reviewer 1 and the reviewer 3, suggested massive coercive citations, according to the open peer review report published with the article.
Several problematic citations are found on this article [1]
Alina Yang is a student at Scarsdale High School. Since last September, she has published nine "Letters to the Editor."
Previously, we and our allies exposed some researchers in Geography gained massive publications through their editor friends, or even through their self-editing, raising concerns about the conflict of interest in those articles. Up to recently, over 1,000 articles were found with such conflict of interest, and much more are undetected due to that the information about the handling editors was not disclosed with the published articles.
However, finding a friends to handle their manuscripts was the first step to allow their articles published much easier, with less rigorous peer review. Our recent investigation suggests that some of those articles were reviewed by authors' friends (Review for Pal), too.
This is a Post Publication Review on the article. Incorrect Tauc plot, as well as irrelevant references are found.
