Hacker News with Generative AI: Academic Publishing

AI tools are spotting errors in research papers (nature.com)
Two new AI tools check for errors in research papers including in the calculations, methodology and references.

Artificial Intelligence, Research, Science, Academic Publishing

601 points by kgwgk 26 days ago | 215 comments

Comment on 2015 mRNA paper suggests data re-used in different contexts (pubpeer.com)

Science, Research, Data Integrity, Academic Publishing

159 points by picture 76 days ago | 81 comments

Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Elsevier changes (retractionwatch.com)
All but one member of the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution (JHE), an Elsevier title, have resigned, saying the “sustained actions of Elsevier are fundamentally incompatible with the ethos of the journal and preclude maintaining the quality and integrity fundamental to JHE’s success.”

Science, Academic Publishing, Ethics, Resignation, Elsevier

17 points by bookofjoe 96 days ago | 2 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 Integrity, Academic Publishing, Retractions

7 points by da768 102 days ago | 0 comments

New hijacking scam targets Elsevier, Springer Nature, and other major publishers (retractionwatch.com)
Until recently, journal hijackers do not appear to have targeted titles from big publishers, in part because their well-known website designs made such clones easy to detect.

Scams, Publishing, Academic Publishing, Research

12 points by domofutu 126 days ago | 0 comments

The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker (retractionwatch.com)
Welcome to the Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker.

Science, Journalism, Research, Academic Publishing

14 points by sedtacet 145 days ago | 1 comments

Highly cited engineer offers guaranteed publication in return for coauthorship (retractionwatch.com)
Last year, a researcher at a U.S. university received an email offering what the subject line described as a “great opportunity to publish an article.”

Research, Academic Publishing, Ethics, Scientific Misconduct

23 points by domofutu 152 days ago | 2 comments

Where Open Access Has Failed to Reform Academic Publishing, Antitrust Law Might (techdirt.com)

Open Access, Academic Publishing, Antitrust Law

5 points by type0 153 days ago | 0 comments

Don't Publish with IEEE (2005) (cr.yp.to)
IEEE is refusing to accept public-domain papers except from government authors.

Academic Publishing, Open Access, Copyright

239 points by stargrave 163 days ago | 92 comments

The Semantic Reader Project: Augmenting Scholarly Documents with AI (cacm.acm.org)
The exponential growth in the rate of scientific publication4 and increasing interdisciplinary nature of scientific progress27 makes it increasingly hard for scholars to keep up with the latest developments.

Science, Artificial Intelligence, Research, Scholarly Communication, Academic Publishing

4 points by mitchbob 174 days ago | 0 comments

Peer review by committee? New journal rethinks old model (nature.com)
The Stacks Journal is aiming to provide a faster, more transparent and trustworthy peer-review model by organizing committees of researchers to assess manuscripts.

Science, Peer Review, Academic Publishing

29 points by gnabgib 183 days ago | 2 comments

GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar (hks.harvard.edu)
Academic journals, archives, and repositories are seeing an increasing number of questionable research papers clearly produced using generative AI. They are often created with widely available, general-purpose AI applications, most likely ChatGPT, and mimic scientific writing. Google Scholar easily locates and lists these questionable papers alongside reputable, quality-controlled research. Our analysis of a selection of questionable GPT-fabricated scientific papers found in Google Scholar shows that many are about applied, often controversial topics susceptible to disinformation: the environment, health, and computing. The resulting enhanced potential for malicious manipulation of society’s evidence base, particularly in politically divisive domains, is a growing concern.

Generative AI, Scientific Research, Disinformation, Academic Publishing, Google Scholar

213 points by celadevra_ 207 days ago | 99 comments

Cash for catching scientific errors: bug bounties for academic publishing (nature.com)

Science, Academic Publishing, Incentives

20 points by anigbrowl 219 days ago | 9 comments

MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract (sparcopen.org)

Open Access, Academic Publishing, MIT, Elsevier

587 points by nabla9 225 days ago | 220 comments

Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we're determined to change that (theguardian.com)

Academic Publishing, Open Access, Science, Academia

8 points by Jimmc414 258 days ago | 1 comments

Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we're determined to change that (theguardian.com)