{
  "id": 15083587,
  "title": "‘Springer’ agency website offering authorship for sale goes down following Retraction Watch story",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/springer-agency-website-offering-authorship-for-sale-goes-down",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-16T21:14:49.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Retraction Watch",
    "slug": "retraction-watch",
    "url": "https://retractionwatch.com/2026/10/16/springer-agency-website-offering-authorship-for-sale-goes-down-following-retraction-watch-story/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The website for Springer Journals Online, an agency offering authorship slots in articles in exchange for payment, has gone offline, four days after Retraction Watch published its investigation into its activities. As we reported on Monday, the agency was soliciting researchers offering services that included securing authorship in research articles intended for journals published by … Continue…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}