Assistant professor Frank Cackowski, left, and researcher Steven Zielske at Wayne State University in Detroit became suspicious of a paper on cancer research that was eventually retracted.
Amy Sacka
The world’s library of scientific papers is becoming contaminated as fraudsters use ‘paper mills’ to game scholarly publishing for profit.
O professor assistente Frank Cackowski, à esquerda, e o pesquisador Steven Zielske, da Wayne State University, em Detroit, suspeitaram de um artigo sobre pesquisa de câncer que acabou sendo retratado por fraude, mas não sem antes perder tempo e recursos pesquisando suas afirmações
Amy Sacka
As “fábricas de artigos” estão contaminando a produção acadêmica mundial com estudos falsos que atrapalham a pesquisa. Campos biomédicos, que salvam vidas, estão entre os mais afetados.
The Problematic Paper Screener trawls through 130 million scholarly papers every week looking for telltale signs that papers were produced by paper mills.
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Science sleuths are stepping up efforts to detect bogus science papers. This includes building tools that comb through millions of journal articles for signs of tortured phrases spawned by AI.
Assistant professor Frank Cackowski, left, and researcher Steven Zielske at Wayne State University in Detroit became suspicious of a paper on cancer research that was eventually retracted.
Amy Sacka
‘Paper mills’ are contaminating the world’s scholarly output with fake papers that hinder research. Lifesaving biomedical fields are especially hard hit.
