Bigger & Better. Oversight from Clear SkiesData supporting our work is gratefully received from a number of sources including: Clear Skies’ publisher partners, the Problematic Paper…Jan 1Jan 1
What luck“Disruption” is what happens when a different technology develops to a point where it does what yours does well enough to meet the needs of…Nov 26, 2024Nov 26, 2024
Impossible to ignoreIt’s 1 January 2021. Dozing in bed, floating in that warm & fuzzy limbo between dreams and reality, and that’s where it hits him. That…Oct 1, 2024Oct 1, 2024
Detecting genAI: beside the point?TL;DR: AI-generated-text detection ceased to be a good indicator of research fraud at the exact time that it became a good tool for…Sep 23, 20241Sep 23, 20241
Predicting retractions with the Papermill AlarmTL;DR: The current version of the Papermill Alarm detects signals in 98.9% of the Hindawi retractions conducted over the last 12 months.**…May 28, 20241May 28, 20241
Keystone: detecting bad actors with network analysisTL;DR: We can detect individuals with a high probability of being involved in milling papers. The question is: how should we respond?Apr 3, 2024Apr 3, 2024
Papermills prefer Open AccessTL;DR: the rate of Papermill Alarm alerts is significantly higher in gold OA content than it is in subscription content. But it’s not that…Mar 11, 20242Mar 11, 20242
Thank you for your warm work… earnestlyWhen life gives you cookie-cutters… (image CC-BY by ‘Unreal’)Feb 19, 20241Feb 19, 20241
The Papermill AlarmThere’s this phrase used by some technologists: ‘epistemic security’. Epistemic security has to do with things like the spreading of…Jan 10, 20241Jan 10, 20241
Is science getting slower?TL;DR: peer-review times appear to have been growing for a long time. The effects of COVID-lockdowns on peer-review are surprising.Sep 18, 2023Sep 18, 2023