Why Did a Peer-Reviewed Journal Publish Hundreds of Nonsense Papers?

The article discusses various research papers appeared in the "Arabian Journal of Geosciences," which is one of several thousand journals put out by the publishing giant Springer Nature. It is noted that the journal has published papers examining college sports-injury insurance along with rainfall on the Loess Plateau, in China, sea-level height and aerobics teaching. It also analyzes the state of academic publishing.