In a confirmation of what I previously wrote about predatory authors:
[R]esearch grants and promotions are awarded on the basis of the number of articles published, not on the quality of the original research.
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This has fostered an industry of plagiarism, invented research and fake journals that Wuhan University estimated in 2009 was worth $150m, a fivefold increase on just two years earlier
From The Economist
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