#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.
Own #papermills
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-11-09 13:21 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
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measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-11-09 13:21 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-09 13:21 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~9556 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 11:00
Languages: English (19) · German (17) · French (4)
Avg boosts / post: 2.6
Top of the latest posts
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
I'd not heard of Fengkai Group before I saw their LinkedIn advert. They're offering paid positions to be a guest editor for special issues in SCI- and Ei Compendex-indexed journals (the latter is Elsevier's engineering index). That's weird,
Update. You can now see the preprint itself, on #arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24576 From the abstract: "We assemble BuyTheBy, a large, annotated dataset of timestamped, text-based paper mill advertisements from seven businesses operati
What “papermills” means
Wiktionarypapermills
- nounA factory devoted to making paper from wood pulp and other ingredients.
#papermills across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #papermills straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
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