Fake Authors Haunt Journals

WarsawZenodo hosts 1,655 papers by fake authors.

Citation counts drive hiring and funding, so fabricated names corrupt the evidence base.

Researcher-identity checks through ORCID, the standard ID registry, are voluntary, and peer review examines the manuscript’s content, not who wrote it.

Retraction can remove a paper but cannot undo years of citations already made.

Sources: 404 Media