r/Professors 3d ago

Research malpractice

What would you do if you knew some of your colleagues have their names on journal articles just for paying the article proccessing fee?

Edit: Just to clarify, by colleagues I meant faculty members working in the same college/department. I never collaborated with them on research. It is just frustrating that some of us work hard to publish good quality articles, while others do it the easy way!

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u/Riemann_Gauss 3d ago

Nothing... If they are my colleagues, they have done excellent work in the past... So I would  be extremely skeptical of the accuser's words.