From someone who actually replied to the scam mails:
"The inner workings of a paper mill"
https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-inner-workings-of-paper-mill.html
Excellent interview by Katrin Schmermund with Anna Abalkina, published in Forschung&Lehre (Open Access, unfortunately only in German language) on Abalkina's research on paper mills. You can follow Abalkina on Bluesky, https://bsky.app/profile/abalkina.bsky.social.
The scale of academic misconduct is amazing, and to a certain degree it is now powered by AI. One almost unchallenged aspect of the problem is fake research data.
#papermills #researchdata #academicmisconduct #publishingreform
https://www.forschung-und-lehre.de/forschung/wir-brauchen-eine-gemeinsame-kraftanstrengung-7218