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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

Bogus scientific papers are enriching fraudsters and slowing lifesaving medical research

Frederik Joelving, Retraction Watch; Cyril Labbé, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), and Guillaume Cabanac, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse

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

Artigos falsos contaminam a literatura científica, alimentam uma indústria corrupta e atrasam pesquisas legítimas

Frederik Joelving, Retraction Watch; Cyril Labbé, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), and Guillaume Cabanac, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse

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. winhorse/iStock via Getty Images

Problematic Paper Screener: Trawling for fraud in the scientific literature

Guillaume Cabanac, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse; Cyril Labbé, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), and Frederik Joelving, Retraction Watch

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

Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research

Frederik Joelving, Retraction Watch; Cyril Labbé, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), and Guillaume Cabanac, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse

‘Paper mills’ are contaminating the world’s scholarly output with fake papers that hinder research. Lifesaving biomedical fields are especially hard hit.

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