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  "textContent": "In a story readers might find familiar, a researcher was asked to pay when he demanded a journal retract an article he had never seen but supposedly wrote — and the journal ghosted him when he refused. In February, Evgenios Agathokleous, an environmental resources researcher at Nanjing University in China, asked Prime Scholars’ European Journal … Continue reading Biology journal ghosts researcher after holding paper hostage ",
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