Here is another case of ‘proxy failure’, and a deliberate counter-movement of collective control to fix it.
Vogt, Thomas. (2025) “Systematic fraud uncovered in mathematics publications”. Phys . org. (Home / Other Sciences / Mathematics)
Agricola, Ilka; Lynn Heller; Wil Schilders; Moritz Schubotz; Peter Taylor; & Luis Vega. (2025). How to Fight Fraudulent Publishing in the Mathematical Sciences: Joint Recommendations of the IMU and the ICIAM. arXiv:2509.09877 [math.HO]. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2509.09877
Harley, Sadie. (ed.) (2025). Organized scientific fraud is growing at an alarming rate, study uncovers. Phys . org. (Home / Other Sciences / Education)
“Paper mills operate by a variety of different models […] they sell basically anything that can be used to launder a reputation.”
“Science must police itself better in order to preserve its integrity,” said Northwestern’s Luís A. N. Amaral, the study’s senior author.
“To combat this growing threat to legitimate scientific publishing, Amaral and Richardson emphasize the need for … enhanced scrutiny of editorial processes, improved methods for detecting fabricated research, a greater understanding of the networks facilitating this misconduct, and a radical restructuring of the system of incentives in science.”
“… if you believe that science is useful and important for humanity, then you have to fight for it.”