Curious case within preprints: Is the author real?

When authorships aren’t what they seem: Probing preprint credibility in open science.

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An assumption at the heart of the scientific publication process is that the author of a manuscript is a scientist. But how can we tell when that is not the case? This supplements an article in The Scholarly Kitchen highlighting one case of a person acting as a scientist and placing papers on multiple preprint platforms.

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