[ABE-L] Fwd: Joint Recommendations / Report of the IMU and the ICIAM on Fraudulent Publishing

[Pedro Alberto Morettin]

Pedro Alberto Morettin

PhD in Statistics, UC Berkeley

Professor Emeritus

Department of  Statistics

Tel: (55-11) 99666-4842

Instituto de Matemática e Estatística

Universidade de São Paulo

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De: Yoshiharu Kohayakawa <yoshi em ime.usp.br>
Date: seg., 15 de set. de 2025 às 10:22
Subject: Joint Recommendations / Report of the IMU and the ICIAM on
Fraudulent Publishing
To: <professores em ime.usp.br>


Prezados colegas,

Segue uma circular da IMU, International Mathematical Union, de
interesse para nossa comunidade.

Esta circular está também acessível na página da IMU:

https://www.mathunion.org/membership/circular-letters-adhering-organizations

Cordialmente,

Yoshiharu Kohayakawa
MAC

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From: IMU Secretary General <secretary em mathunion.org>
Subject: [IMU AO Circular Letter 12/2025] Joint Recommendations and a
  Report of the IMU and the ICIAM on Fraudulent Publishing
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:37:21 +0200

Dear colleagues

Fraudulent publishing and citation cartels have emerged as a significant
concern within our community.  Notably, in November 2023, Clarivate, the
parent company of Web of Science, announced that it excluded the entire
mathematical discipline from the most recent edition of its list of
highly cited authors.  The rationale provided for this exclusion was as
follows (see Clarivate’s blog entry by David A.  Pendlebury, November 15,
2023, Highly Cited Researchers 2023: The evolution of our evaluation and
selection policy to support a robust scholarly landscape):

    “(Mathematics) is a highly fractionated research domain, with few
    individuals working on a number of specialty topics. The average
    rate of publication and citation in Mathematics is relatively low,
    so small increases in publication and citation tend to distort the
    representation and analysis of the overall field. Because of this,
    the field of Mathematics is more vulnerable to strategies to
    optimize status and rewards through publication and citation
    manipulation.”


https://clarivate.com/academia-government/blog/highly-cited-researchers-2023-the-evolution-of-our-evaluation-and-selection-policy-to-support-a-robust-scholarly-landscape/

Since then, the International Mathematical Union (IMU) and the
International Council of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) have
established a working group to delve deeper into the study of fraudulent
publishing and citation cartels.  This working group, comprising Ilka
Agricola, Lynn Heller, Wil Schilders, Moritz Schubotz, Peter Taylor, and
Luis Vega, has recently authored a report on the subject and has
formulated precise recommendations for policymakers and institutions,
outlining strategies to foster ethical scientific practices while
simultaneously detecting and addressing fraudulent conduct.

For individuals, the recommendations provide a set of possible actions
to safeguard research communities from being corrupted by fraud and pure
business interests.

These recommendations were formulated by the authors in close
collaboration with the IMU Committee on Publishing (chaired by Ilka
Agricola) and were endorsed by the Executive Committee of the IMU and
the Board of the ICIAM in May / June 2025.

Please find the recommendations and report below:

  • 2025-IMU-ICIAM-Recommendations-on-Fraudulent-Publishing

https://www.mathunion.org/fileadmin/CoP/Publications/2025-09-IMU-ICIAM-recommendations-fraudulent-publishing.pdf
  • 2025-IMU-ICIAM-Report-on-Fraudulent-Publishing

https://www.mathunion.org/fileadmin/CoP/Publications/2025-IMU-ICIAM-fraudulent-publishing.pdf

The report will appear in the October issue of the Notices of the
American Mathematical Society.

https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202509/202509FullIssue-optimized.pdf

Regards

Christoph Sorger

Secretary General of the International Mathematical Union

phone +49 30 20372-431  mail secretary em mathunion.org  www www.mathunion.org
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