New academic spam: single-authored papers cold-pitching ARR service contributions
anmarasovic · x · 2026-09-18
The author reports that people are now receiving daily cold messages from strangers with "single-authored" papers asking them to serve as an ARR service contributor — a new flavor of peer-review-gaming academic spam.
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