@RetractionWatch Science is in crisis because of no retractions for most of papers which need to be retracted.

I think these XRD patterns are fakes. Authors think that "the inherent noise patterns of the detection system may exhibit similarities.". Who is here right? Hm....

Some journals seem to be created for that type of papers. I posted about XRD but the list of comments rapidly increased to include publication of the same images in several papers.

Composite materials are easy to prepare (in some places). You take XRD pattern for one material, add one peak for second one and here it is. It is money saving and environmentally friendly method. Do you agree @wileyinresearch ? Advanced Eng. Mat ?

@lockeash11 @fxcoudert @MicrobiomDigest Absolutely. These guys suppose to be senior scientists at their University and writing this nonsense only damage their reputation even more.

Large number of publications helped this guy to get lecturer job ahead of other candidates, but have you checked his PubPeer record @kauofficiell? Do you consider this type of papers as something expected from your senior staff?

@SciReports The question remains why this crap was cited 126 times? Possibly all citing articles need to be checked for similar issues

@EnvSciRSC Nanocircles of economy? Is that about nanodollars?

@RetractionWatch Publish or perish is old concept. Publish and Perish is more modern.

Just added one more paper to her PP record:

@Spottingthespot We all know these methods to increase citation scores.

These "producuts" are hand drawn Pisa-tower peaks which suggest reverting time is fine in certain types of experiments. @ElsevierConnect , can you please check who reviewed this piece?

I start 2025 with this piece of quality copy paste published as XRD patterns. Something tell sme these authors have a lot more to enjoy in their papers.

@Nature You could ask why nothing happened with these two papers poste don PP two years ago. Both are by Ashkan Salamat and published prior to his work with Ranga Dias.

@Spottingthespot Well , you can't expect that full professors are making new experiments, right? Carmela Aprile is now full prof., Roberto Martin is in private company. They had to hire somebody to record new data.

@Spottingthespot "yes, we published faked data but apology is enough. You must beleive that all other data and figures were not (a bit better) faked".