Author: Kim Eggleton, IOP Publishing’s Research Integrity and Inclusion ManagerAccording to Retraction Watch, a website which keeps tabs on research papers withdrawn from scientific journals, from the millions of papers published every year, about 30,000 retractions have been added to the Retraction Watch database. This number is expected to rise dramatically as research misconduct becomes increasingly industrialised with the emergence of paper-mills. This is where falsified research submissions are produced at scale by profit-oriented organisations.