Anna Abalkina is a Russian academic, and is a research fellow at the Free University of Berlin.
Abalkina researches scientific corruption and fraud, including paper mills and hijacked journals.
After she complained to the journal involved, the author was allowed to insert citations to Abalkina's work, rather than withdrawing the articles.
[2] Since 2013, Abalkina has worked with the organisation Dissernet, which tracks plagiarism in Russian dissertations and published articles, and has identified thousands of fake degrees across hundreds of institutions.
[2] Abalkina's work has resulted in her being included on a Russian social media watchlist run by Roskomnadzor.