Until Retraction Watch reached out for comment, the company “Springer Global Publication” – which is not affiliated with Springer Nature – had advertised a variety of services on its website, including finding a writer for research papers, editing manuscripts, developing research proposals, analyzing data and managing the peer review process, a collection of services which is a classic attribute of a paper mill. After Retraction Watch emailed them, they removed descriptions of these services from their website, as well as links to papers published in cloned journals, but did not respond before publication the story about them.
The company stated: "We would like to emphasize that our organization is not a publisher, nor do we operate any journals, cloned or otherwise. Our primary role is to provide Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) as a form of online identification for assignments, research papers, and various other digital content at the request of our customers." On a page still available on Springer Global’s website, and archived here, the company lists 16 journals as "Our Publication".
