Fig. 7
From: Identifying fabricated networks within authorship-for-sale enterprises
Histogram of journal exposure unusual author cohort. The x-axis is the percentage of papers in any given journal that appear to be associated with the unusual paper network (i.e. number of papers found in a journal that appear to be authored by a unusual author). The y-axis, using a \(\log _{10}\)-scale, is the frequency with which journals fall into each 1% band of exposure. There are 12,434 journals (shown in green) that contain potentially unusual-author-affiliated publications at a rate between 0 and 2%; 696 journals (shown in orange) have an exposure of between 2% and 4% of their articles; 717 journals have an exposure to the unusual-author network with more than 4% of their articles. Note that the \(log_{10}\) scale of the y-axis compresses and underplays the number of “safe” journals and tends to emphasize the size of the tale of this distribution.
