[dgcoffman]

> In a 2016 study1 in Scientometrics, Byrne and Labbé reported 48 problematic papers, including the 30 papers that had incorrectly identified nucleotide fragments. These were all written by authors from China.

[epmaybe]

Right, I'm not denying that the story linked was about fraud in China. But nowhere do they state that the problem is limited to Chinese researchers.

[pacala]

The _degree_ of the Chinese problem is astounding. There are bad apples in all cultures, but the rampant situation in China is something else.

[rhizome]

Is it out of line with their proportion of researchers?