Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures

https://www.wsj.com/science/academic-studies-research-paper-mills-journals-publishing-f5a3d4bc

by alphabetting • 2 years ago

20 5 2 years ago

Let's not forget that there's a market for all the junk, and it's not the scientists. There's a close parallel with AI slop - it's not aimed at people but at advertisers, the goal is SEO. Same with fake papers and pay-to-publish journals. That stuff is aimed at administrators, because faculty nowadays need publications for promotion, and the admin has no idea about quality but can count.

nradov• 2 years ago

Some institutions in China were literally paying their scientists cash bonuses for getting papers published in Western scholarly journals. That policy has now been scaled back, but as you can imagine it had a corrosive effect. We have to assume by default that any paper out of China since circa 1990 is fraudulent until proven otherwise.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/07/12/150506/the-truth...

HarryHirsch2• 2 years ago

Oh, the West is no better, at certain institutions tenure means n number of papers, no questions asked where.

We have to assume by default that any paper out of China since circa 1990 is fraudulent until proven otherwise

What's that xenophobic language? You are not a scientist, are you? In science you learn pretty quickly who you can trust, and there's excellent work coming out of China these days.

agomez314• 2 years ago

“Generative AI has just handed them a winning lottery ticket,” Eggleton of IOP Publishing said. “They can do it really cheap, at scale, and the detection methods are not where we need them to be. I can only see that challenge increasing.”

tmaly• 2 years ago

Maybe there needs to be a new way of measuring things.

Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures

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