International Publisher Ltd. (or International Publisher LLC)[1] is an academic paper mill company that coordinates the sale of fake authorships on research papers for publication in an academic journal.
[2] The company is headquartered in Moscow (Russia) with offices in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Iran, and lists its chief editor as Ksenia Badziun.
[3] Others may be otherwise legitimate articles; there is evidence that it also approaches authors published in high-quality journals to sell co-authorship slots.
[2] The company was exposed by scientific misconduct tracking website Retraction Watch in 2019.
[5] In 2019, the scientific indexing company Clarivate's Web of Science group sent International Publisher Ltd. a cease-and-desist letter, which was ignored.