{"id":3893,"date":"2014-03-03T12:47:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T17:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=3893"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:06","slug":"how-nonsense-papers-ended-up-in-respected-scientific-journals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/03\/how-nonsense-papers-ended-up-in-respected-scientific-journals\/","title":{"rendered":"How nonsense papers ended up in respected scientific journals."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/future_tense\/2014\/02\/27\/how_nonsense_papers_ended_up_in_respected_scientific_journals.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/187744090-professor-peter-higgs-visits-the-science-museums.jpg.CROP_.promo-mediumlarge.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Caption: Nobel winner Peter Higgs says that today, he wouldn&#8217;t be &#8220;productive enough&#8221; to land an academic job.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"text text-1 parbase section\">\n<p>In 2005, a group of MIT graduate students decided to goof off in a very MIT graduate student way: They created a program called <a href=\"http:\/\/pdos.csail.mit.edu\/scigen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SCIgen<\/a> that randomly generated fake scientific papers. <strong>Thanks to SCIgen, for the last several years, computer-written gobbledygook has been routinely published in scientific journals and conference proceedings<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-2 text parbase section\">\n<p>According to <em>Nature News<\/em>,<em> <\/em>Cyril Labb\u00c3\u00a9, a French computer scientist, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/publishers-withdraw-more-than-120-gibberish-papers-1.14763#\/b1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recently informed<\/a> Springer and the IEEE, two major scientific publishers, that between them, they had published more than 120 algorithmically-generated articles. In 2012, Labb\u00c3\u00a9 had told the IEEE of another batch of 85 fake articles. He&#8217;s been playing with SCIgen for a few years\u00e2\u20ac\u201din 2010<strong> a fake researcher he created, Ike Antkare, briefly became the 21st most highly cited scientist in Google Scholar&#8217;s database<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/future_tense\/2014\/02\/27\/how_nonsense_papers_ended_up_in_respected_scientific_journals.html\">How nonsense papers ended up in respected scientific journals.<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last several years, computer-written &#8216;scholarly articles&#8217; has been routinely published in scientific journals and conference proceedings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[285,706,196,918,917,919],"class_list":["post-3893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-authority","tag-scholarship","tag-science","tag-scientific-journals","tag-slate","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3893"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9974,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893\/revisions\/9974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}