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Guillaume Cabanac - Professeur d'informatique à l'Université Toulouse 3 – Paul Sabatier Membre de l'Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) Chercheur à l'Institut de recherche en informatique de Toulouse (IRIT) Professeur d'informatique à l'Université Toulouse 3 – Paul Sabatier Membre de l'Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) Chercheur à l'Institut de recherche en informatique de Toulouse (IRIT)

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

When scientific citations go rogue: Uncovering ‘sneaked references’

Reading and writing articles published in academic journals and presented at conferences is a central part of being a researcher. When researchers write a scholarly article, they must cite the work of peers to provide context, detail sources of inspiration and explain differences in approaches and results. A positive citation by other researchers is a key measure of visibility for a researcher’s own work. But what happens when this citation system is manipulated? A recent Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology article by Lonni Besançon and Guillaume Cabanac and their team of academic sleuths – which includes information scientists, a computer scientist and a mathematician – has revealed an insidious method to artificially inflate citation counts through metadata manipulations: sneaked references.

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Subjects: Information Mapping, KM, Legal Research, Librarian Resources, Libraries & Librarians
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