Hacker News with Generative AI: Academic Integrity

An unethical guide to 100.000 citations (forbetterscience.com)
When you think you have seen all possible variants of rather questionable scientific integrity and forms of ethical misconduct after reading this blog and others for years, someone will appear out of nowhere to surprise you: Zhanhu Guo, who is currently Professor of Mechanical & Construction Engineering at Northumbria University Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK (although Web of Science still lists his old affiliation in USA).

Science, Academic Integrity, Ethics, Research

24 points by fresh_broccoli 8 days ago | 0 comments

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 61 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 73 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 86 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 97 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 124 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 128 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 135 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 136 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 185 days ago | 48 comments

How Much Science Is Fake? (osf.io)

Science, Research, Academic Integrity

29 points by doener 187 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 290 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 328 days ago | 131 comments