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by igorlev 2100 days ago
At first I thought it was yet another experiment that generates nonsense papers to show which journals will accept just about anything, but after running a quick search on some of the authors (https://pubpeer.com/search?q=Massimo+Fioranelli) seems like some sort of academic SEO/backlink/reference/paper mill operation going on?

Would be fascinating to map the cross referencing and co-author graph here.

Some of the comments on pubpeer are hilarious.