Someone went to the trouble of creating 5 fake OSF accounts today, linking to 5 fake ORCID accounts, and generating 5 fake papers to submit to SocArXiv, with fake author and emails. Dude, if you are reading this, I hope you get the help you need (or a better job).

March 16, 2026 - 04:06 UTC

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cc @cos.io @orcid.org
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Hello

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kahGSss6SsU&t=1409s
Calculating pi from coin flips (without randomness)

42--Letter_to_past_PhD_advisors
--regarding-child-marriage-in-India.pdf

bistromath1982.neocities.org/clarissa-docs/advertising/42--Letter_to_past_PhD_advisors--regarding-child-marriage-in-India.pdf

bistromath1982.neocities.org/clarissa-docs/advertising/

Best wishes, about Pi Day, & . . .
OK, bye
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How is this monetizable behavior?
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Maybe it's just someone trying to generate a citation bump (they have some fake citations in common). Maybe testing something. Maybe just sociopaths
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Someone's experiment just destroyed
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That's mind blowing. Can I ask - what's your vetting process? How did you know that these were all fake?

I am also realising how much extra work this is causing all of us in the review and publication end of things.
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Beyond obvious plagiarism (has someone else already published this?), we don't have a specific protocol for forgery. This was pretty obvious: Too short for such a major data analysis. Figures but no tables. Then googling the authors and not finding them. Etc. Yes, much wasted time, very bad behavior
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