#academicpapers — Public Fediverse posts

Ars Technica: Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck?. “German physicist Max Planck was one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics in the early 20th century, earning the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of quanta. There has never been a whisper of scandal about the man’s integrity or his scientific work. So a pair of science historians were puzzled when they […]

Kirsten the Librarian: The Big List of Google Scholar Alternatives (and the Big Librarian Existential Crisis). “I started writing this in summer of last year, intending it to be a nice little list of tools that would be handy if Google Scholar disappeared or got substantially worse, as a follow up to my LSE Impact blog post.[1] The more I wrote the more I realised that I needed to caveat all my […]

Found in my Calishat Snaps: LinXiv. “Discover, manage, and visualize academic papers from arXiv — run your library on hardware you control, with a modern desktop app, optional AI, Obsidian integration, and an interactive network graph.”

Stephen Bainbridge: The Social Science Research Network Has Jumped the Shark. “The research paper series has been an incredibly useful way of staying on top of recent scholarly developments. It gives you a listing of recently posted works and, crucially, each work’s abstract. As such, you know whether or not the paper looks to be of sufficient interest to justify downloading and reading the […]

NBC News: Fake academic journals are publishing AI-generated papers under real professors’ names . “A network of fake academic journals masquerading as legitimate publications has published more than a hundred AI-generated papers in recent months, in some cases using the names of real professors at top universities without their knowledge.”

EL PAÍS: Eleven studies by Spanish scientist Rafael Luque are retracted due to fraudulent practices. “On December 1, 2022, Luque was expelled from his university, Universidad de Córdoba, with a historic sanction. A new tool now exposes how he rose to the top and how he fell, eventually becoming honored in the Kremlin as ‘pro-Russian.’ Eleven studies of his have already been retracted for […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/12/el-pais-eleven-studies-by-spanish-scientist-rafael-luque-are-retracted-due-to-fraudulent-practices/

TechXplore: ‘Reborn articles’: Simple approach enables direct publication of machine-readable scientific findings. “Rather than trying to teach machines our language, why not produce science in a language they already understand? In an article published in Scientific Data, the team introduces reborn articles, an open-source approach that allows researchers to produce scientific findings in a […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/02/reborn-articles-simple-approach-enables-direct-publication-of-machine-readable-scientific-findings-tech-xplore/