A Third of Papers Made Up
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andrewcriddle
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Re: A Third of Papers Made Up
It seems to be more about plagiarism (and self plagiarism) than fraud in the sense of bogus results.Secret Alias wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 4:30 pm https://www.semafor.com/article/05/10/2 ... fraudulent
Andrew Criddle
'Katy, bar the door!'
1/3rd of neuroscience papers.andrewcriddle wrote: ↑Thu May 11, 2023 8:16 amIt seems to be more about plagiarism (and self plagiarism) than fraud in the sense of bogus results.
Andrew Criddle
After screening some 5000 papers, he estimates up to 34% of neuroscience papers published in 2020 were likely made up or plagiarized; in medicine, the figure was 24%.
Of 15,120 PubMed®-listed publications, most fakes were native Chinese:
Results The classification rules using two (three) indicators had sensitivities of 86% (90%) and false alarm rates of 44% (37%). From 2010 to 2020 the RFP rate increased from 16% to 28%. Given the 1.3 million biomedical Scimago-listed publications in 2020, we estimate the scope of >300,000 RFPs annually. Countries with the highest RFP proportion are Russia, Turkey, China, Egypt, and India (39%-48%), with China, in absolute terms, as the largest contributor of all RFPs (55%).
Not to sound all rayczist, but eliminate heavily restrict those academic 'BRICs' and the ratio of 'Cheating, Low-Life Scum' in biomed fields drops accordingly. This is a political-economic problem for the West.