Linköping UniversityWIKIMEDIA, JENS AYTON
Earlier this month, Sensors, a journal belonging to the open access publisher MDPI, cancelled a planned special issue on biosensors due to the fake credentials and alleged fraud associated with its guest editor, Ashutosh Tiwari.
A description of the anticipated special issue, which has now been removed from MDPI’s website, had initially listed Tiwari as a professor affiliated with Linköping University (LiU). But according to Franck Vazquez, the CEO of MDPI, the journal learned that these credentials were false, and in addition to pulling the special issue from its website, MDPI has also removed LiU from Tiwari’s descriptions in past Sensors issues where he served as guest editor.
Tiwari was previously a researcher at the university studying biosensors and bioelectronics, but has not held a ...
