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In 2023, Mike Downes stated that to the list of fraudulent practices undertaken by predatory publishers "must be added the invention or compilation of articles ostensibly written by academic scholars but in fact crafted by the publishing house in question", noting that "the majority are created under a fake name by compiling a set of plagiarized passages extracted from the specialized literature or cannibalized from within the journal's own archive". Downes's research showed that all of OMICS's subsidiaries and imprints have created and published such articles, arguing that this was evidence that "the directive to carry out this fraudulent scheme appears to have been a chosen policy coming from the top management" of OMICS.<ref>{{cite journal|titlename=The "phantom of the author: predatory publisher OMICS is ghost-writing its own articles|first=Mike|last=Downes|journal=Learned Publishing|volume=36|issue=4|pages=703-708|year=2023|doi=10.1002/leap.1573}}<"/ref>