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Former student who ran paper mill up to 11 retractions
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Retraction Watch
Sameer QuaziA former bioinformatics student who operated a paper mill while at the University of Manchester has lost another paper, bringing his total to 11 retractions.
Quazi’s most recent retraction, a 2023 paper on antimicrobial agents, appeared in the MDPI journal Antibiotics.
Writing under the alias “Carex ternaria” on PubPeer, Koch pointed out the paper contains several “tortured phrases” in the introduction.
The second retraction in August was for a 2022 Nutrients paper cited 13 times.
One 2022 paper on AI in genomic medicine, which Quazi is the sole author on, has been cited 165 times.