Sarahanne Field and I discuss the Journal of Trial and Error and our work towards normalizing error and null/negative findings in science:
nature.com/articles/d4158…

72 Expressions of Concern from the editors of 'Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements'!
sciencedirect.com/search?qs=%22E…

All for a single thoroughly-corrupted Special Issue, edited by Arash Karimipour.
sciencedirect.com/journal/engine….

Whenever Guillaume Cabanac ⟨here and elsewhere⟩ posts about absurd synonyms cropping up in academic papers, I am reminded of this F.R.I.E.N.D.S episode! 🦘

I use this slide in my academic writing workshops for laughs. But the automated synonymizing epidemic is no laughing matter!

The lengths academia will go to pull off impressive 'metrics'.
Go on, place value in numbers. People will find ways to fake them

Dernier article publié!🔔
Avec Guillaume Cabanac ⟨here and elsewhere⟩, C. Labbé et A. Magazinov, nous documentons une nouvelle manipulation du nombre de citations via l'enregistrement des métadonnées Crossref | @[email protected]. Les références peuvent être 'introduites en douce'... doi.org/10.1002/asi.24…
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📑 Our ‘sneaked references’ preprint arxiv.org/abs/2310.02192 that Retraction Watch covered retractionwatch.com/2023/10/09/how… now accepted in JASIST: doi.org/10.1002/asi.24…. BTS: I commented on May 2022 a ‘tortured’ paper downloaded 62 times and cited 107 times…😵 pubpeer.com/publications/A…

Latest preprint out!🔔
With Guillaume Cabanac ⟨here and elsewhere⟩ C. Labbé, and A. Magazinov, we document a new way of manipulating citation counts through Crossref metadata registration. References can be ‘sneaked in’ while publishers register papers and their bibliographies.

doi.org/10.1002/asi.24……

Reese Richardson Amaral Lab has more details about the questionable companies dangling easy publications for #IMGs hoping to boost their chances of attaining medical residency in the US reeserichardson.blog/2024/05/05/a-n…

Publishing with Integrity Publishing with Integrity

Scholars in Malaysia are no longer allowed to use public funds to publish articles in journals owned by

MDPI, Hindawi and Frontiers

. #MDPIPublisher buff.ly/48KXFAs

I wonder who this 'anonymous' reviewer could be. Also, where's the editor in all of this?!

🚨🚨 #IamNOTanExpert #PeerReviewQuality ? Bioengineering MDPI

Round 1 – Reviewer 3 (Anoymous)

“I am NOT an expert in ALL THESE research areas”

mdpi.com/2306-5354/11/4…

This contradicts MDPI declared policy about peer review

web.archive.org/web/2024022504… (archived 25/2/24)

🧬😵‍💫 ‘deoxyribonucleic corrosive (DNA)’ • ‘DNA fix’ • ‘X-beam diffraction’ • ‘watery arrangement’ ... I reported this Springer Nature article with 2 years ago. No action. Still online and sold 39,95 €... I'm speechless 😞 This is outrageous! 🤬 pubpeer.com/publications/E…

PLOS ONE retracts a paper with clear but undisclosed evidence of ChatGPT use.
journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
Nearly 100 such papers here.
retractionwatch.com/papers-and-pee…

Another one!

I was included on the #TIME100HEALTH list of 100 individuals who most influenced global health this year. time.com/6968406/sholto…

🍬 A Heliyon article earns a #correction : 'glucose bigotry’ should read ‘glucose intolerance’. The correction notice doesn't credit my @[email protected] report pubpeer.com/publications/4…. I invite Elsevier to fix 38+ other Heliyon problematic articles: pubpeer.com/publications/0…

'AI Chatbots Have Thoroughly Infiltrated Scientific Publishing', from Scientific American, by Chris Stokel-Walker with comments by Elisabeth Bik |Andrew Gray | @[email protected] | Matt Hodgkinson buff.ly/4dizeNh

“Green Biomaterials, the only journal where 100% of papers are on @[email protected]”

The academic sleuth facing death threats and ingratitude: Lonni Besançon 🇫🇷 🇸🇪
'By examining scientific articles after they are published and exposing shortcomings, he has made himself an enemy of both researchers and publishers.'
phys.org/news/2024-04-a…

A free browser extension released by Redactek alerts researchers if the study they are reading cites papers flagged on @[email protected] — my latest for nature: nature.com/articles/d4158… Jodi Schneider