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OMICS, the major Indian publisher of fake science journals, has accepted a meaningless and garbled document submitted by the Citizen as valuable research for presentation at a continuing medical education conference.

It previously published the Citizen’s test submission in an ethics journal — then was forced to retract it once we made the episode public.

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Earlier this week, it accepted the same text all over again for presentation at a conference on immunology, claiming it had passed peer review.

Now it has accepted it for another conference, this time in geriatrics and palliative nursing.

Traditionally, “predatory” publishers have targeted mostly junior academics who need career advancement. Continuing education represents an expansion of the business model.

Doctors and nurses who pay to attend the conference expect to update their knowledge, and are promised credits for continuing education.