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Adam Day

Keystone: detecting bad actors with network analysis

TL;DR: We can detect individuals with a high probability of being involved in milling papers. The question is: how should we respond?

3 min readApr 3, 2024

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Keystone: detecting bad actors with network analysis

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Adam Day

Papermills prefer Open Access

TL;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…

3 min readMar 11, 2024

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Papermills prefer Open Access

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Adam Day

Thank you for your warm work… earnestly

When life gives you cookie-cutters… (image CC-BY by ‘Unreal’)

3 min readFeb 19, 2024

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Thank you for your warm work… earnestly

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Adam Day

The Papermill Alarm

There’s this phrase used by some technologists: ‘epistemic security’. Epistemic security has to do with things like the spreading of…

6 min readJan 10, 2024

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The Papermill Alarm

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Adam Day

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.

4 min readSep 18, 2023

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Is science getting slower?

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Adam Day

Where to draw the line? Precision and recall

The Papermill Alarm draws a line between papers which have the characteristics of papermill-products and those that don’t. Given data like…

4 min readJun 15, 2023

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Where to draw the line? Precision and recall

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Adam Day

Cast a wide net

TL;DR: There’s been a recent major upgrade to the private Papermill Alarm. It looks like we can predict the inclusion of journals on the…

5 min readApr 12, 2023

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Cast a wide net

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Adam Day

The definition of plagiarism

This is Ralph. How tall is Ralph?

4 min readMar 24, 2023

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The definition of plagiarism

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Adam Day

We need a chat about ChatGPT

There’s a quote attributed to Ernest Rutherford: “That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp…

5 min readJan 24, 2023

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We need a chat about ChatGPT

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Adam Day

Video: APIs for Papermill detection (ConTech API Series)

Recently, I gave a presentation on the APIs for Papermill Detection offered by Clear Skies Ltd.

1 min readNov 28, 2022

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Video: APIs for Papermill detection (ConTech API Series)

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Adam Day

Adam Day

Creator of Clear Skies, the Papermill Alarm and other tools clear-skies.co.uk #python #machinelearning #ai #researchintegrity

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