The RW Daily: Scientific Reports on hold in PubMed while NLM reevaluates journal; 'The Currency of the Journal Article Is Collapsing'
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Scientific Reports on hold in PubMed while NLM reevaluates journal.
The "Unexpected Elements" podcast on Retraction Watch and the Ctrl Z Award.
Anna Wexler
"The Currency of the Journal Article Is Collapsing."
"The Currency of the Journal Article Is Collapsing."
Worthwhile Reads Elsewhere
- "AI systems operating within the incentive architecture of scientific publishing face systematic pressure to optimize for publishability rather than truth, producing outputs that may be internally coherent yet empirically untethered."
- An impersonated researcher is impersonated again.
- "AI-hallucinated citations should be treated as research misconduct."
ICYMI
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- Weekend reads: Mega-journal on hold at PubMed; $1 billion lawsuit against Elsevier tossed; ‘I Used AI to Fake a Scientific Paper'
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