Fake academic papers are on the rise: why they're a danger and how to stop them

https://theconversation.com/fake-academic-papers-are-on-the-rise-why-theyre-a-danger-and-how-to-stop-them-224650

by nithinj • 2 years ago

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fxtentacle• 2 years ago

Isn't fake everything on the rise, because that's OpenAI's business model?

The question is why is a community supposedly dedicated to truth and quality of information falling victim to this? The likely answer is what we're all expecting, the publish or perish culture put in place by major publishing houses and the pressure that puts on academics to maintain their livelihoods will cause some to cave under the pressure and pursue darker paths, and this is just another marker of that.

czzr• 2 years ago

The “publish or perish” culture has been put in place by academics themselves, the major publishers are just beneficiaries of that.

PeterStuer• 2 years ago

There's 2 problems mixed in here:

1) Quantitative metric evaluation in academia which became defacto in the 90's resulted in the 'publish or perish' hellscape of modern university "research".

2) traditional peer review just does not work good enough as a trusted gatekeeper/curator, and has been compromised in many ways.

foldr• 2 years ago

Peer review is often touted as a highly rigorous process, but it's always been an honor system that relies on most of its participants being basically honest and well-intentioned. Once the element of cutthroat competition is introduced, those assumptions become far less safe.

ecoquant• 2 years ago

It almost like people wrote about a replication crisis a decade ago.

Fake academic papers are on the rise: why they're a danger and how to stop them

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