November 26, 2023

The Hill: Science is littered with zombie studies. Here’s how to stop their spread.

The Hill: Science is littered with zombie studies. Here’s how to stop their spread.. “Since 1980, more than 40,000 scientific publications have been retracted. They either contained errors, were based on outdated knowledge or were outright frauds. Identifying these inaccuracies is how science is supposed to work. Finding and correcting publications — and keeping the scholarly record up to date — is part of the process. Yet these zombie publications continue to be cited and used, unwittingly, to support new arguments. Why? Almost always it’s because nobody noticed they had been retracted.”

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October 24, 2023

AVMA Journals: Converting the JAVMA and AJVR archives to digital files—an important ongoing project

AVMA Journals: Converting the JAVMA and AJVR archives to digital files—an important ongoing project. “Librarians have long wrestled with how best to fulfill requests for single articles pertinent to a historian’s or veterinary scholar’s work. Indeed, the University of Pennsylvania has received on average 1 request for an archived article per day for the past 6 years. Retrieving and scanning each article is a laborious task, and one that costs considerable staff time and overhead. This is also not ideal for our journals because the important work of our authors is not being cited, and citations are what drive further submissions and impact factor. Since I began as Editor-in-Chief in 2021, my team has been intent on improving access to the back volumes prior to 2000.”

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October 9, 2023

Retraction Watch: Signs of undeclared ChatGPT use in papers mounting

Retraction Watch: Signs of undeclared ChatGPT use in papers mounting. “Ostensibly authored by researchers in China, ‘Revitalizing our earth: unleashing the power of green energy in soil remediation for a sustainable future’ includes the extraneous phrase ‘Regenerate response’ at the end of a methods section. For those unfamiliar, ‘Regenerate response’ is a button in OpenAI’s ChatGPT that prompts the chatbot to rework an unsatisfactory answer.”

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October 9, 2023

Nature: ‘In case I die, I need to publish this paper’: scientist who left the lab to fight in Ukraine

Nature: ‘In case I die, I need to publish this paper’: scientist who left the lab to fight in Ukraine. “When Russia invaded his home country in February 2022, neuroscientist Sergiy Sylantyev was leading a research programme at the University of Aberdeen, UK, investigating chemical signalling in the brain. Within weeks, Sylantyev — who had no military experience — travelled to

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September 7, 2023

EurekAlert: ACM publishes new journal of Proceedings of the ACM On Networking

EurekAlert: ACM publishes new journal of Proceedings of the ACM On Networking. “ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has announced the publication of the first issue of Proceedings of the ACM on Networking (PACMNET), a new peer-reviewed journal. Issued quarterly, PACMNET publishes original research papers on new technologies, novel experimentation, creative use of networking technologies, and new insights into network management. The journal features articles on system design and performance evaluations of computer networks, experience learned from deployments, traffic engineering, and network programmability from academic experts as well as practitioners working in public or private settings.”

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September 5, 2023

Stanford University: Two Tessier-Lavigne papers retracted on his last day as president

Stanford University: Two Tessier-Lavigne papers retracted on his last day as president. “Prominent journal Science issued retraction notices for two high-profile Marc Tessier-Lavigne papers today, the same day his tenure as Stanford’s 11th president officially ends. Tessier-Lavigne, who had previously defended the studies that have now been withdrawn, acknowledged that the research contained manipulated data in the notices.”

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August 23, 2023

WIRED: Use of AI Is Seeping Into Academic Journals—and It’s Proving Difficult to Detect

WIRED: Use of AI Is Seeping Into Academic Journals—and It’s Proving Difficult to Detect. “IN ITS AUGUST edition, Resources Policy, an academic journal under the Elsevier publishing umbrella, featured a peer-reviewed study about how ecommerce has affected fossil fuel efficiency in developing nations. But buried in the report was a curious sentence: ‘Please note that as an AI language model, I am unable to generate specific tables or conduct tests, so the actual results should be included in the table.’”

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August 2, 2023

Washington Post: How scientists work to correct the record when there is an error in a paper

Washington Post: How scientists work to correct the record when there is an error in a paper. “A panel of scientific experts — convened as part of an inquiry sparked by reporting in the Stanford Daily — concluded that [Marc] Tessier-Lavigne did not falsify scientific data or engage in research misconduct and did not find any evidence that he knew of problems in the papers before they were published. Still, the case highlighted the role that journals play in the scientific record and in public understanding of science — and raised questions about the process for correcting that record when things go awry.” The link is to a gift article so you should be able to read it without a paywall.

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July 20, 2023

Google Scholar Blog: 2023 Scholar Metrics Released

Google Scholar Blog: 2023 Scholar Metrics Released. “Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. Today, we are releasing the 2023 version of Scholar Metrics. This release covers articles published in 2018–2022 and includes citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar as of July 2023.”

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