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Adam Day

Adam Day

Impossible to ignore

It’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

Impossible to ignore

Oct 1

Adam Day

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

Detecting genAI: beside the point?

Sep 23

Adam Day

Predicting retractions with the Papermill Alarm

TL;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

Predicting retractions with the Papermill Alarm

May 28

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?

Apr 3

Keystone: detecting bad actors with network analysis

Apr 3

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…

Mar 11

Papermills prefer Open Access

Mar 11

Adam Day

Thank you for your warm work… earnestly

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

Feb 19

Thank you for your warm work… earnestly

Feb 19

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…

Jan 10

The Papermill Alarm

Jan 10

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.

Sep 18, 2023

Is science getting slower?

Sep 18, 2023

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…

Jun 15, 2023

Where to draw the line? Precision and recall

Jun 15, 2023

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…

Apr 12, 2023

Cast a wide net

Apr 12, 2023

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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