[Biblist] Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common

Under rubriken Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common har tidskriften Science studerat fenomenet "publish or perish" fenomenet. https://www.science.org/content/article/fake-scientific-papers-are-alarming… klipp When neuropsychologist Bernhard Sabel put his new fake-paper detector to work, he was “shocked” by what it found. After screening some 5000 papers, he estimates up to 34% of neuroscience papers published in 2020 were likely made up or plagiarized; in medicine, the figure was 24%. Both numbers, which he and colleagues report in a medRxiv preprint <https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.06.23289563v1> posted on 8 May, are well above levels they calculated for 2010—and far larger than the 2% baseline estimated in a 2022 publishers’ group report <https://doi.org/10.24318/jtbG8IHL>. klipp Still, the detectors raise hopes for gaining the advantage over paper mills, which churn out bogus manuscripts containing text, data, and images partly or wholly plagiarized or fabricated, often massaged by ghost writers. Some papers are endorsed by unrigorous reviewers solicited by the authors. Such manuscripts threaten to corrupt the scientific literature, misleading readers and potentially distorting systematic reviews. The recent advent of artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT has amplified the concern. Uppenbarligen kommer det att bli värre innan det blir bättre. Dom stora förlagen har en del motåtgärder Twenty publishers—including the largest, such as Elsevier, Springer Nature, and Wiley—are helping develop the Integrity Hub tools, and 10 of the publishers are expected to use a paper mill detector the group unveiled in April. STM also expects to pilot a separate tool this year that detects manuscripts simultaneously sent to more than one journal, a practice considered unethical and a sign they may have come from paper mills. Such large-scale cooperation is meant to improve on what publishers were doing individually and to share tools across the publishing industry, van Rossum say Ett svenskt forskningsråd, Forte i samarbete med en rad forskningsbibliotek tecknat ett avtal med ett förlag som sänkt ribban och gör det lättare och snabbare att bli publicerad i tidskrifter som i många fall har skräpstatus. Etablerade forskare har protesterat men sannolikt förgäves. Det är ett allvarligt problem om fuskartiklar och fusktidskrifter blir allt vanligare för forskningens kvalité Jan -- Jan Szczepański F.d Förste bibliotekarie och chef för f.d Avdelningen för humaniora, vid f.d. Centralbiblioteket, Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek E-post: Jan.Szczepanski63(a)gmail.com