Post #2979468
2023-05-12 19:32 UTC
To test their indicator, the authors conjecture that a valid indicator should meet three criteria based on a questionnaire sent to authors:
(i) Authors of fake publications are reluctant to provide critical information as revealed by their response – or non-response – to the questionnaire by the editor,
(ii) the number of fake publications increases steadily over time, and
(iii) journals with a low to medium impact factor are most affected.
There's a huge problem here.
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@ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org 2023-05-12 19:35
If non US/EU authors are more likely to use non-institutional email addresses, the detector will pick up these authors disproportionally. And indeed we expect non US/EU authors to i) have lower response rates, due to language issues not to mention (deserved, apparently!) distrust ii) make up an increasing fraction of publication share iii) publish at higher rates in low and mid impact journals So all three test hypotheses fail to distinguish between fake papers and non US/EU authorship.