Beyond Retractions: Forensic Scientometrics Techniques to Identify Research Misconduct, Citation Leakage, and Funding Anomalies

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.14793v1
• Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:41:03 GMT
• Title: Beyond Retractions: Forensic Scientometrics Techniques to Identify Research Misconduct, Citation Leakage, and Funding Anomalies
• Authors: Leslie D. McIntosh, Alexandra Sinclair, Simon Linacre,
• Abstract summary: The Pharmakon Neuroscience Research Network is a fabricated research collective that operated primarily between 2019 and 2022.<n>This paper presents a forensic scientometric case study of the Pharmakon Neuroscience Research Network.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: This paper presents a forensic scientometric case study of the Pharmakon Neuroscience Research Network, a fabricated research collective that operated primarily between 2019 and 2022 while embedding itself within legitimate scholarly publishing channels.

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