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Anna Abalkina

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Anna is a research fellow at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

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Dr. Anna Abalkina is a research fellow at Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). Her research focuses on corruption in higher education, academic misconduct, plagiarism, and predatory and hijacked journals, as well as on explaining their costs and consequences. In 2022, Anna Abalkina, in collaboration with Retraction Watch, created The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker,” a regularly updated list of hijacked journals. She also studies paper mills in different roles: as a researcher, a sleuth, and a member of United2Act working groups. She received Nature’s 10 award in 2024 for her work on exposing fraud.