China’s Paper Chase: ‘Paper Mills’ Help Academics Commit Fraud
China’s “paper mills” are selling fake authorship and fabricated data to researchers. And they’re making tens of millions of yuan in the process. An exposé published Monday by domestic media outlet Hongxing News detailed the workings of two such fraudulent companies in southwestern China’s megacity of Chongqing from May. To…
bubmagOctober 16, 2025