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Academic journal forced to retract peer-reviewed AI-generated paper after "rat penis" pics go viral (media.kbin.social)

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[–] Jesusaurus 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Frontiers has something like a 90%+ publish rate, which for any "per reviewed" journal is ridiculously high. They have also been in previous scandals where a large portion of their editorial staff were sacked (no pun intended).

[–] oyfrog 1 points 10 months ago

They sent me an email once inviting me to be a guest editor. I thought it would be a cool experience and a neat thing to have on the CV.

I mentioned it to my advisor at the time and they told me that frontiers does that pretty often and that these special issues don't amount to anything.

Frontiers isn't alone of course. MDPI is notorious for shitty editorial practices too.