Post #1767173
2023-05-12 19:02 UTC
This week, Science published a stunningly irresponsible news story entitled "Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common" and claiming that upward of 30% of the scientific literature is fake.
https://www.science.org/content/article/fake-scientific-papers-are-alarmingly-common
Below, the first two paragraphs of the story.
Headline and intro notwithstanding, the story itself later notes that the detector doesn't actually work and flags nearly half of real papers as fake. Does the reporter just not understand that?
h/t @Hoch
Replies (2)
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@ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org 2023-05-12 19:07
The numbers from this story are based on a laughable "fake paper detector" that literally consists of the following ONLY. Do the authors: 1) use private (non-institutional) email addresses and/or have a hospital affiliation, and 2) have no international coauthors. That's it. If these criteria are met, the paper is deemed a "potential red-flag fake publication" and counted toward that 30% tally.
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@twinkler@fediscience.org 2023-07-09 20:27
@ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org @Hoch@ecoevo.social Isn't this article an example of relatively widespread attention-grepping storytelling spilling over into science? Not new, though.