Table 3 Absolute number of unusual papers detected in the years 2020, 2021 and 2022 by country

From: Identifying fabricated networks within authorship-for-sale enterprises

Country

All publications

Matched publications

Percentage (%)

Pakistan

266

251

94

Saudi Arabia

345

317

92

Malaysia

122

99

81

Iron

88

65

74

Turkey

96

66

69

Iraq

234

119

51

Egypt

209

106

51

India

1,666

773

46

United States

126

55

44

China

1,059

263

25

  1. The “All publications” column is the total number of publications identified via the Cabanac method, the “Matched publications” column reports the number of publications matched with the model proposed in the current paper. The “Percentage” column gives the proportion of matched publications.