Articles Issued Through the Wiley-Hindawi Open Access Publishing Partnership

In a case study of Hindawi special issues, Dorothy Bishop studies the impact of paper mills that charge authors to place fraudulent papers in the academic literature. Publishers have been slow to tackle the problem, but are now starting to devise methods for identifying paper mill products. However, little attention has been paid to the topic of complicit editors, who can take over special issues of journals and then publish many fraudulent articles.