I have been made aware of two similar cases in the past couple of months...
Beyond the deeply unethical behaviour, I couldn't help but take it very personally as it showed how little respect the authors had for us as authors, editors, peers etc
I am still so incredibly angry about it
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Dec 20, 2025 07:58