Hacker News with Generative AI: Academic Integrity

Wiley journal retracts 26 papers for 'compromised peer review' (retractionwatch.com)
A Wiley journal has retracted more than two dozen articles in the last few months for peer review issues.
Science, Publishing, Research, Academic Integrity
23 points by leephillips 38 days ago | 0 comments
As a nonsense phrase of shady provenance makes the rounds, Elsevier defends it (retractionwatch.com)
The phrase was so strange it would have stood out even to a non-scientist. Yet “vegetative electron microscopy” had already made it past reviewers and editors at several journals when a Russian chemist and scientific sleuth noticed the odd wording in a now-retracted paper in Springer Nature’s Environmental Science and Pollution Research.
Science, Research, Retraction, Publishing, Academic Integrity
61 points by domofutu 50 days ago | 7 comments
Fake papers contaminate world scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry (theconversation.com)
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 lives.
Science, Research, Publishing, Academic Integrity
6 points by rntn 63 days ago | 0 comments
Tomatoes roaming the fields and canaries in the coalmine (blogspot.com)
Many publishers are getting nervous about infiltration by paper mills, who can torpedo a journal's reputation when they succeed in publishing papers that are obvious nonsense.
Journalism, Research, Publishing, Academic Integrity
132 points by mathgenius 74 days ago | 33 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 after failing to meet quality criteria, according to a report by Retraction Watch.
Science, Research, Publishing, Academic Integrity
105 points by namanyayg 101 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 105 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 112 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 113 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 162 days ago | 48 comments
How Much Science Is Fake? (osf.io)
Science, Research, Academic Integrity
29 points by doener 164 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 267 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 305 days ago | 131 comments