A fraud scandal at a medical conference in Denmark exposes the underground WhatsApp groups and paper mills helping lecturers buy promotion
The Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology has set up a team to examine papers previously published by the alleged perpetrators, saying action would be taken if they were found to have used falsified data.
The studies were supposedly done by four researchers, but she was the only one who travelled to Copenhagen.
Two Indonesian academics, including one who attended the conference, spotted what they believed was a web of deception and posted their suspicions on social media, where the case went viral and caught officials’ attention.