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A company named Springer that isn’t the publisher is offering authorship for sale

Computer scientist Richard Fateman got an email in August that was completely “out of the blue”: an offer of coauthorship in articles headed for publication in prestigious journals, in exchange for a fraction of the publication costs. Fateman, professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, retired 18 years ago, so he was alarmed by … Continue reading A company named Springer that…

A company named Springer that isn’t the publisher is offering authorship for sale

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