Although some of the text in the 2025 IJERT paper was altered, the images are the same as those from the ASABE paper, which has been cited 13 times, according to Clarivate’s Web of Science. The IJERT paper also replaced the word “broiler,” a chicken raised for meat production, with “grill,” including paraphrasing “broiler mortality” as “grill mortality” and “U.S. The journal responded on October 1 saying they “found [the paper] copied” and would remove it in 24 hours, Walker told us. The three authors of the IJERT paper don’t have affiliations listed, and LinkedIn messages sent to the likely authors went unanswered. Walker pointed out the PDF property title for the IJERT article, “PAFS15013,” is the same as that for the ASABE paper.