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See also: papermill
English[edit]
Noun[edit]
paper mill (plural paper mills)
- A factory devoted to making paper from wood pulp and other ingredients.
- An organization that unethically sells pre-written papers to students.
- Synonym: essay mill
- 2010, Rosemarie Menager, Lyn Paulos, Quick Coach Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism, →ISBN, page 13:
- Similarly, buying papers from paper mills, or paying for someone else to write a paper, is obviously dishonest and is a clear example of plagiarizing.
- An organization that produces large volumes of poor-quality or forged research papers.
- Coordinate term: content mill
- 2023 May 31, Layal Liverpool, “AI intensifies fight against ‘paper mills’ that churn out fake research”, in Nature[1], :
- Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are complicating publishers’ efforts to tackle the growing problem of paper mills — companies that produce fake scientific papers to order.
Coordinate terms[edit]
- (organization churning out low-quality or fake academic work): accreditation mill, diploma mill, ordination mill
Translations[edit]
factory
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