Post #2979469
2023-05-12 19:35 UTC
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.
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@ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org 2023-05-12 19:39
And that's the worst part of it. While I don't want to imply anything about the motivations of the authors, *their paper has racist consequences.* Their paper implements a detector that they themselves show doesn't work, and that we have every reason to expect disproportionally flags papers from Asia and the Global South—and then concludes that these area contribute the most fake papers. Figure 3 is a disgrace.