Adam DayKeystone: 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?3 min read·Apr 3, 2024----
Adam DayPapermills 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…3 min read·Mar 11, 2024--2--2
Adam DayThank you for your warm work… earnestlyWhen life gives you cookie-cutters… (image CC-BY by ‘Unreal’)3 min read·Feb 19, 2024--1--1
Adam DayThe Papermill AlarmThere’s this phrase used by some technologists: ‘epistemic security’. Epistemic security has to do with things like the spreading of…6 min read·Jan 10, 2024--1--1
Adam DayIs 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 read·Sep 18, 2023----
Adam DayWhere to draw the line? Precision and recallThe Papermill Alarm draws a line between papers which have the characteristics of papermill-products and those that don’t. Given data like…4 min read·Jun 15, 2023----
Adam DayCast a wide netTL;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 read·Apr 12, 2023----
Adam DayWe need a chat about ChatGPTThere’s a quote attributed to Ernest Rutherford: “That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp…5 min read·Jan 24, 2023--3--3
Adam DayVideo: 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 read·Nov 28, 2022----