Hacker News with Generative AI: Academic Integrity

Journal that published faulty black plastic study removed from science index (arstechnica.com)
The publisher of a high-profile, now-corrected study on black plastics has been removed from a critical index of academic journals after failing to meet quality criteria, according to a report by Retraction Watch.
Science, Research, Publishing, Academic Integrity
105 points by namanyayg 26 days ago | 83 comments
Journal that published faulty black plastic study removed from science index (arstechnica.com)
The publisher of a high-profile, now-corrected study on black plastics has been removed from a critical index of academic journals amid questions about quality criteria, according to a report by Retraction Watch.
Science, Research, Publishing, Academic Integrity
6 points by speckx 30 days ago | 0 comments
Ethical Challenges Related to the NeurIPS 2024 Best Paper Award (var-integrity-report.github.io)
To AI Research Community: This report is written to convey our serious concerns about the recent recipient of the Best Paper award at NeurIPS 2024, Visual Autoregressive Modeling: Scalable Image Generation via Next-Scale Prediction (VAR) . While we acknowledge that this NeurIPS paper is technically sound, we must emphasize that it involves serious misconduct by the first author (Keyu Tian), which fundamentally undermines the core values of integrity and trust upon which our academic community is built.
AI Research, Ethics, Academic Integrity, Scientific Misconduct, NeurIPS
30 points by Dowwie 37 days ago | 12 comments
Ethical Challenges Related to the NeurIPS 2024 Best Paper Award (var-integrity-report.github.io)
To AI Research Community: This report is written to convey our serious concerns about the recent recipient of the Best Paper award at NeurIPS 2024, Visual Autoregressive Modeling: Scalable Image Generation via Next-Scale Prediction (VAR). While we acknowledge that this NeurIPS paper is technically sound, we must emphasize that it involves serious misconduct by the first author (Keyu Tian), which fundamentally undermines the core values of integrity and trust upon which our academic community is built.
AI Research, Ethics, Academic Integrity
13 points by baobabKoodaa 38 days ago | 1 comments
Paper mills: the 'cartel-like' companies behind fraudulent scientific journals (theconversation.com)
Science and Nature, two leading science journals, have revealed a growing problem: an alarming rise in fraudulent research papers produced by shady paper mill companies.
Science, Research, Publishing, Fraud, Academic Integrity
121 points by coloneltcb 87 days ago | 48 comments
How Much Science Is Fake? (osf.io)
Science, Research, Academic Integrity
29 points by doener 89 days ago | 78 comments
Researchers discover a new form of scientific fraud: 'sneaked references' (phys.org)
Science, Research, Academic Integrity, Fraud
137 points by toss1 192 days ago | 44 comments
New head of one of the world’s oldest universities organized a citation cartel (elpais.com)
Education, Research, Academic Integrity, Spain
242 points by belter 230 days ago | 131 comments