The editor-in-chief of an open-access journal is to resign after claiming that its publisher, Bentham Science Publishing, accepted a hoax article without his knowledge.

Bambang Parmanto, an information scientist at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and editor-in-chief of The Open Information Science Journal, said he had not seen the computer-generated manuscript, accepted by Bentham on 3 June.

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