paper mill

Definitions

1. A factory devoted to making paper from wood pulp and other ingredients.
2. An organization that unethically sells pre-written papers to students.
3. An organization that produces large volumes of poor-quality or forged research papers.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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⟳.”

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