A Book That Will Never Be Read
“I cannot shake the feeling that we find ourselves in a publisher-papermill complex, powered largely by public funding. ” – Michal Wojcik
Category: paper mills
The subtleties a spectrograph would miss
“it seems the AI used for an anonymous commenter is not able to read the article and randomly comments on the article. […] Sometimes, we feel that some random person commenting on the article may not have the insight or technical expertise to evaluate the article. It seems your AI model used to write such comments is not fully operational and is making mistakes” – a scholar opines on Smut Clyde
A Bingdi lotus is in bloom
“Mr. Efferth firmly rejects the suspicion raised against him of involvement in paper mill activities and in the publication of automatically generated publications.” – University of Mainz
Burt! This bloke won’t Kaggle!
“This is unedifying but illustrative on so many levels of how quickly papermills have parasitised the Open Science paradigm and strip-mined all its resources. It also illustrates how quickly the incantatory Worship Words of Machine Learning shut down the critical faculties of reviewers when included in a manuscript, convincing them that its ludicrous claims are merely restatements of what they already know.” – Smut Clyde
The Three Wise Deans of Islamabad
“Here is the story about one of those institutions where nearly all senior staff members including professors, associate professors and at least 3 former Deans are exposed on PubPeer with extensive evidence of fraud in multiple papers.” – Dayo Maor
Crunchy Frog and Cockroach Cluster
“On one side: late-career scientists resorting to purchased promotion of their early-career papers. On the other side: whole new genres of paper-shaped artifacts that are little more than packaging for ever-larger citation cargoes, and papermillers no longer bothering to find buyers for naming rights on their products.” – Smut Clyde
An expert criticism by fraudsters and antivaxxers: the case of PubPeer
“A concerning trend is the rise of “hyper-skepticism”” – ChatGPT
BMJ invaded by Iranian papermill
“Patients with weak heart function who receive stem cell therapy shortly after a heart attack are at lower risk of developing heart failure and related hospital stays compared with standard care, finds a clinical trial published by The BMJ today.”
The Heidelberg whistleblower
“Given Jost Jonas’ high productivity and his German origin, could it be that he somehow profits from helping Asian institutions with boosting their publication metrics?” – Aneurus Inconstans
Sons of Poland
“Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła,
Kiedy my żyjemy.
Co nam obca przemoc dała,
odpłacimy fabrykom artykułów.
