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A network diagram shows a small cluster of "broker" editors sitting at the center of PLOS ONE's retracted-paper connections — 45 editors handled 1.3% of output but 30.2% of retractions.

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Paper Mills, Editors, and Systematic Reviews: What a 2025 Fraud-Network Study Teaches About Reading Evidence

A 2025 PNAS study used network analysis to map the editors, authors and brokers behind industrial-scale paper mills. A companion JAMA Netwo…

EduFabTech · 25 Sep 2026 · 7 min read

A scatter of 504 independent re-analyses clusters near the original reported effect but spreads far off it, framing the headline "One Dataset. 457 Analysts. Same Question, Different Answers."

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Same Data, Different Answers: What 504 Independent Re-Analyses of 100 Studies Reveal About Reading a Single Paper

When 457 analysts reanalyzed the same 100 studies, 74% reached the same conclusion as the original authors — but only 34% matched the origi…

EduFabTech · 18 Sep 2026 · 7 min read

Three vertical bars compare SCORE's headline pass rates — 73.5% reproducible, 57% robust, 55.1% replicated — under the line "Reproducible. Robust. Replicable. Rarely all three."

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Reproducible, Robust, Replicable: What a 3,900-Claim Audit of Social Science Found

A seven-year DARPA-funded project checked 3,900 social-science claims three ways — reproducing, stress-testing, and replicating them — and …

EduFabTech · 15 Sep 2026 · 9 min read