2015 HoaxDetectingSoftwareSpotsFakeP
- (Bohannon, 2015) ⇒ John Bohannon. (2015). “Hoax-detecting Software Spots Fake Papers.” In: Science, 348(6230). doi:10.1126/science.348.6230.18
Subject Headings: SCIgen, Automatically-Generated Research Paper.
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It all started as a prank in 2005. Three computer science Ph.D. students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Jeremy Stribling, Max Krohn, and Dan Aguay - created a program to generate nonsensical computer science research papers. The goal, says Stribling, now a software engineer in Palo Alto, California, was "to expose the lack of peer review at low-quality conferences that essentially scam researchers with publication and conference fees.” The program - dubbed SCIgen - soon found users across the globe, and before long its automatically generated creations were being accepted by scientific conferences and published in purportedly peer-reviewed journals. But SCIgen may have finally met its match. Last week, academic publisher Springer released SciDetect, a freely available program to automatically detect automatically generated papers.
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| Author | volume | Date Value | title | type | journal | titleUrl | doi | note | year | |
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| 2015 HoaxDetectingSoftwareSpotsFakeP | John Bohannon | Hoax-detecting Software Spots Fake Papers | 10.1126/science.348.6230.18 | 2015 |