A letter to the editor is presented regarding the impact of the increased of scientific papers published in China which are being inflated by a payment scheme offered by some Chinese institutions to boost journal publications.
*LETTERS to the editor, *OPEN access publishing, *RESEARCH
Abstract
A letter to the editor is presented which discusses a debate regarding self-archiving of pre-and-post print versions of research papers on the arXiv.org server, an open-access publishing, in high-energy physics.