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 26Nov 26
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 1Oct 1
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 231Sep 231
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 281May 281
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 3Apr 3
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 112Mar 112
Thank you for your warm work… earnestlyWhen life gives you cookie-cutters… (image CC-BY by ‘Unreal’)Feb 191Feb 191
The Papermill AlarmThere’s this phrase used by some technologists: ‘epistemic security’. Epistemic security has to do with things like the spreading of…Jan 101Jan 101
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
Where 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…Jun 15, 2023Jun 15, 2023