The authorship of the article is questionable.
Recently, the 5GH Team received a message alleging the data reported in an article may be manipulated. After the investigation, we found some anomalous data in the article.
Several problematic references were found on this article.
An investigation by the 5GH Team reveals that PLoS articles with a Chinese first author have citation disadvantage.
Nature communications articles with a Chinese first author published in 2025 received an average of 13.4 citations, ranking 1st among the nation published more than 20 articles in the journal
Our investigation reveals that about 61% Advanced Materials articles published in 2025 have a Chinese first author.
Our investigation reveals that Chinese authors are over represented in Advanced Materials family. In 2025, about 61% published in Advanced Materials have a Chinese first author. The number reaches 71.6% in Advanced Functional Materials.
An investigation by the 5GH Team found that China ranks among the top collaborating countries for U.S. universities.
The article suggests that a structured after-school physical activity program can effectively improve physical fitness, body composition, and sleep of primary school students. This finding is interesting not only to the scientific community, but also to the general public, as physical inactivity and declining physical fitness pose significant risks to the health of Chinese children and adolescents. However, caution is needed when we interpret the results from this study.
A recent investigation reveals that an author group from Liaoning Normal University with core authors of ZHU Xingchen (朱星辰) exhibits several salami-slicing publication practices.
Slicing publication practices raise debate within the scientific community. Some argue that such practices may cause fragmentation of academic research and waste the time of reviewers and readers. Moreover, these practices are believed to boost publication numbers rather than contribute meaningfully to the scientific community.
