Guillaume Cabanac

Guillaume Cabanac a été distingué par la revue Nature comme l’un des dix scientifiques de l’année 2021. DCCE, Université de Toulouse

Ces détectives qui traquent les fraudes scientifiques : conversation avec Guillaume Cabanac

Avec son « collège invisible », constitué d’une centaine de personnes, des scientifiques mais aussi de nombreux amateurs, Guillaume Cabanac traque les fraudes scientifiques.
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

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

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

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

‘Paper mills’ are contaminating the world’s scholarly output with fake papers that hinder research. Lifesaving biomedical fields are especially hard hit.
Science is a process of collaboration that depends on accurate citations. AlexRaths/iStock via Getty Images

When scientific citations go rogue: Uncovering ‘sneaked references’

Scholars have long measured the impact of a paper by counting the number of times other scientific articles cite it. Researchers have just detected a new kind of citation fraud.
Quand les scientifiques enquêtent sur les fraudes des publications. Krakenimages.com/Shutterstock

Découverte d’une fraude scientifique pour booster artificiellement l’impact des recherches

Pour mesurer l’impact d’un article scientifique, on peut compter combien d’autres papiers y font référence. Des chercheurs viennent de détecter une fraude aux citations.

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