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Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures
- HarryHirsch 2y agoLet'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 2y agoSome 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-about-chinas-cash-for-publication-policy/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/07/12/150506/the-truth...
- HarryHirsch 2y agoOh, 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.
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- agomez314 2y 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 2y agoMaybe there needs to be a new way of measuring things.