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Will accessing scientific knowledge ever become totally free? (Pictured here, the book tower at Prague’s Municipal Library, the Czech Republic). Lysander Yuen/Unsplash

Making scientific knowledge free for all

Frédéric Schmidt, Université Paris-Saclay; Camille Thomas, University of Bern, and Romain Vaucher, James Cook University

Publishing and having access to scientific articles is an expensive business for research institutions. Fortunately, there are content providers out there who deliver rigorous material that’s free of charge.
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.
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.

Related Topics

  1. Academic journals
  2. Academic research
  3. Fraud
  4. Open access
  5. Open access publications
  6. Paper mills
  7. Research fraud
  8. Science journals
  9. Scientific publishing
  10. Scientific research

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