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🌐 Stable URL: https://www.irit.fr/~Guillaume.Cabanac/problematic-paper-screener

🕵️ This website shows reports the daily screening of papers (partly) generated with:
Automatic SBIR Proposal Generator
Dada Engine
Mathgen
SCIgen
Tortured phrases
... and Citejacked papers 🔥

⚗️ Harvesting data from these APIs:
Crossref, now including the Retraction Watch Database
Dimensions
PubMed
PubPeer

Number of problematic papers

Reference

🧑‍🏫 PPS in a nutshell: problem tackled and method used ⸻ 🎥 video in English or in French.

👨‍💻 Problematic papers are reported as PubPeer posts, see the tortured phrases collection and more.

📄 Cabanac, G., Labbé, C., & Magazinov, A. (2022). The ‘Problematic Paper Screener’ automatically selects suspect publications for post-publication (re)assessment.
Presented at WCRI 2022: 7th World Conference on Research Integrity. arXiv preprint. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2210.04895
▷ Featured in the Nature's 10 list of 2021 that ‘explores key developments in science this year.’

Key highlights

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Nature's 10

Nature bullshit

ArXiv Nature

JASIST Nature

Journal CNRS

arXiv Tortured

JASIST