paper mill
nounEtymology paper + mill
1
A factory devoted to making paper from wood pulp and other ingredients.
2
An organization that unethically sells pre-written papers to students.
- 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.2010, Rosemarie Menager, Lyn Paulos, Quick Coach Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism, →ISBN, page 13:
3
An organization that produces large volumes of poor-quality or forged research papers.
- 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.2023 May 31, Layal Liverpool, “AI intensifies fight against ‘paper mills’ that churn out fake research”, in Nature, →DOI:
- Derived terms
- paper-milling
- Coordinate terms
- degree mill, diploma mill