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3️⃣| #PaperMills: So kauft man eine Studie, die es nie gegeben hat

Evidenz ist Zentral für #Wissenschaft und skeptisches Denken. Umso schlimmer, wenn Fake-Paper mit falschen Daten publiziert werden. Ist das möglich? #Quarks hat es versucht:

https://skeptix.org/2026/09/11/paper-mills-so-kauft-man-eine-studie-die-es-nie-gegeben-hat/

📰| Neues im #SkeptixBlog

Ihr seid auf der Suche nach #Infotainment zu skeptischen Themen? Keine Sorge, Bernd hat wieder einige Empfehlungen für euch – egal, ob ihr euch für #Haustiere, sadistische Netzwerke wie #764 oder für die Machenschaften von sogenannten #PaperMills interessiert.

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Lisa Weitemeier, Lea Wolz, and Lara Schwenner researched paper mills for this ARD/Studio Q documentary.

#PaperMills
#ResearchIntegrity

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Lisa Weitemeier, Lea Wolz, and Lara Schwenner researched paper mills for this ARD/Studio Q documentary.

#PaperMills
#ResearchIntegrity

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Lisa Weitemeier, Lea Wolz, and Lara Schwenner researched paper mills for this ARD/Studio Q documentary.

#PaperMills
#ResearchIntegrity

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Lisa Weitemeier, Lea Wolz, and Lara Schwenner researched paper mills for this ARD/Studio Q documentary.

#PaperMills
#ResearchIntegrity

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Our new 📄 in Current Alzheimer Research looks at a strange, and worrying, phenomenon in scientific writing: tortured phrases. Instead of blood-brain barrier, some papers use bizarre alternatives like blood-brain obstruction or blood-cerebrum boundary.

:doi: https://doi.org/10.2174/0115672050460224260206052444

These are not just language errors, they can signal deeper issues such as weak #PeerReview or even #PaperMills.

#OpenScience #ResearchIntegrity #Bibliometrics #Neuroethics #AcademicPublishing

Bringt KI die Wissenschaft in Gefahr? - 3sat-Mediathek

https://www.3sat.de/wissen/nano/251104-sendung-bringt-ki-die-wissenschaft-in-gefahr-nano-100.html

"Es gibt immer mehr gefälschte Studien und Fake-Publikationen - auch in Fachzeitschriften. Künstliche Intelligenz macht das Fälschen leichter. "

Interview mit Bernhard Sabel (Dazu: Stockholmer Erklärung
Forschende fordern Reformen im Publikationssystem: https://www.forschung-und-lehre.de/forschung/forschende-fordern-reformen-im-publikationssystem-7378)

#FakeScience #PaperMills #ImpactFactor #PublishOrPerish #jounsls #ki #ai #3SatNano #StockholmerErklärung #StockholmDeclaration

"A growing tide of fake papers is flooding the scientific record and proliferating faster than current checks can rid them from the system, scientists warn.

The source of the trouble is “paper mills,” businesses or individuals that charge fees to publish fake studies in legitimate journals under the names of desperate scientists whose careers depend on their publishing record.

The rate of fake papers generated by these operators roughly doubled every 1.5 years between 2016 and 2020, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

“The entire structure of science could collapse if this is left unaddressed,” said study author Luís Amaral, a physicist at Northwestern University.

Paper mills look for weak links, such as lax verification protocols, in the typically rigorous publication machinery, then exploit those to place hundreds of fabricated studies with vulnerable journals or publishers, according to scientist investigators who have been tracking and cataloging their work.

It can be a costly mess to clean up.

Publishers who have become aware of suspected paper mill activity have been forced to retract hundreds of papers at once, and in some cases shut down journals."

https://www.wsj.com/science/scientific-journals-fake-paper-mills-92e42230

#AI #GenerativeAI #AISlop #AcademicPublishing #PaperMills #ScientificJournals #Science #PeerReview