Ur artikel i National Review The 217-year-old publisher of numerous scientific journals, *Wiley*, is dealing with an existential crisis. It recently shuttered 19 journals and retracted more than 11,300 papers upon discovering large-scale research fraud afflicting them. The fraud wasn’t limited to the usual suspects: the academically dubious social-science “grievance studies” fields (e.g., gender studies, race studies, and fat studies). Nearly 900 fraudulent papers were from the physical-sciences publisher IOP Publishing. “That really crystallized for us, everybody internally, everybody involved with the business,” Kim Eggleton, head of peer review and research integrity at the publisher, told the *Wall Street Journal* <https://www.wsj.com/science/academic-studies-research-paper-mills-journals-publishing-f5a3d4bc?>. “This is a real threat.” https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/05/how-much-of-science-is-fake/ Jan -- Jan Szczepański F.d Förste bibliotekarie och chef för f.d Avdelningen för humaniora, vid f.d. Centralbiblioteket, Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek E-post: Jan.Szczepanski63(a)gmail.com