#PaperMills

Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #PaperMills from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.

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1
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
1
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
40
Recent posts
Mastodon
~0/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 40
0.3
Avg reactions / post
Mastodon · last 40

Day-by-day usage

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-07-29 17:22 UTC
0
07-23
0
07-24
0
07-25
0
07-26
0
07-27
1
07-28
0
07-29

1 uses by 1 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.

Related hashtags

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-07-29 17:22 UTC
#paperMillsAcademicPublishing_
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#papermillsludge
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#papermillsproductions
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d

Live pulse

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-07-29 17:22 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~8563 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 11:00

00:0012:0023:00

Languages: English (22) · German (15) · French (3)

Avg boosts / post: 2.4

Top of the latest posts

  • Update. Related: "Opening Pandora's box: Paper mills in conference proceedings." https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22458 From the abstract: "This study aims to identify papers in conference proceedings whose titles have been offered for sale on so

    petersuber@[email protected]♥ 5↻ 112026-04-29 13:45 UTCView post →

  • A new study shows that articles from #PaperMills can get "50 to 100% more citations than other papers" even with fewer downloads. One cause for the extra citations is mutual citation by the same papers. Primary source (preprint) https://www

    petersuber@[email protected]♥ 2↻ 122026-07-07 19:11 UTCView post →

  • "Thousands of shady ads sell paper authorship for cash, large-scale investigation finds." https://www.science.org/content/article/thousands-shady-ads-sell-paper-authorship-cash-large-scale-investigation-finds PS: This article from _Science_

    petersuber@[email protected]♥ 2↻ 62026-04-26 17:20 UTCView post →

Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/papermills