Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Science publishers withdraw more than 120 computer-generated papers


Two science publishers have withdrawn more than 120 papers after a researcher in France identified them as computer-generated. According to Nature News , 16 fraudulent papers appeared in publications from Germany-based Springer, and more than 100 were published by the New York-based Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).


The papers were flagged by computer scientist Cyril Labbé, of Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France. They were created using software called SCIgen, which was invented by MIT researchers in 2005 to prove how easy it is to publish nonsense papers in conference proceedings. Labbé developed a way to identify the papers by recognizing common words that SCIgen uses, as described in a 2012 study....


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