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SUMMARY:An Introduction to Publication Fraud - Nick Wise (University of Ca
 mbridge)
DTSTART:20221202T124500Z
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CONTACT:Paras Vadher
DESCRIPTION:Publications are the life-blood and currency of academia. They
  are the primary means by which scientific results are communicated as wel
 l as often the key metric by which the productivity and prestige of academ
 ics are judged. In many institutions the higher your number of publication
 s\, and the more those publications are cited\, the more likely you are to
  get a permanent job or be promoted.\nAs academics we expect that a paper 
 we read in a journal is original and was written by the authors named at t
 he top of the article. This is not just because we expect others to conduc
 t research with integrity but also because a published article has been se
 en by an editor and been through peer-review. Sadly\, however\, in recent 
 years there has been an explosion in papers that do not meet these expecta
 tions.\nIn this talk I will introduce several kinds of publication fraud t
 hat you should be aware of: automated paraphrasing of existing works by so
 ftware\; special issues which are anything but\; and the sale of authorshi
 p of scientific papers on social media. I will also discuss the drivers of
  publication fraud and consider what we can do about it.
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