#Academicpolicy

A landmark study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences warns that organised scientific fraud — from “paper mills” and brokers to hijacked journals and paid authorships — is expanding faster than legitimate scholarly output, posing a serious threat to the credibility of science worldwide and raising urgent questions for Thailand’s universities and research funders. The analysis finds networks of actors producing and laundering fraudulent papers at scale, with compromised subfields showing dramatically higher retraction rates and evidence that fake publications may be doubling at a pace that outstrips honest research growth ((PNAS study); (Northwestern news release); (New York Times summary)).