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Cyril Labbé received a PhD in computer science (1999) and a MS in applied mathematics from University of Grenoble. He is a tenured professor in computer science and co-PI of the ERC-Synergy "Nano Bubbles: How, how, when and why does science fail to correct itself?". He is at the head of the Information Systems research team (Sigma-team) at the Grenoble Informatics Laboratory, France. His research interest includes large scale data management and text analysis. His work on text-mining and automatic detection of bogus scientific paper, has led to retractions or withdrawals of countless computer science and bio-medical publications. He created the "scigen detection" and "seek&blastn" softwares, participated to the "Problematic Paper Screener" website and did also create Ike Antkare, a fictitious scientist, that had once (dixit Google Scholar) an astonishing h-index.

Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research

Over the past decade, furtive commercial entities around the world have industrialized the production, sale and dissemination of bogus scholarly research, undermining the literature that everyone from doctors to engineers rely on to make decisions about human live. To better understand the scope, ramifications and potential solutions of this metastasizing assault on science, Frederik Joelving, contributing editor at Retraction Watch, a website that reports on retractions of scientific papers and related topics, and two computer scientists at France’s Université Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier, and Cyril Labbé , and Guillaume Cabanac, Université Grenoble Alpes who specialize in detecting bogus publications – spent six months investigating paper mills.

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Subjects: Education, Health, Healthcare, KM, Medical Research, Technology Trends
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