🧵 TRUST THE SCIENCE
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Jul 2024 07:29:50 UTC No. 16276979
https://theconversation.com/when-sc
A recent study has exposed a method of artificially inflating citation counts through "sneaked references," which are extra citations included in metadata but not in the actual text of articles. This manipulation, uncovered in journals by Technoscience Academy, distorts citation metrics that are critical for research funding and academic promotions. The Conversation reports:
The investigation began when Guillaume Cabanac, a professor at the University of Toulouse, wrote a post on PubPeer, a website dedicated to post-publication peer review, in which scientists discuss and analyze publications. In the post, he detailed how he had noticed an inconsistency: a Hindawi journal article that he suspected was fraudulent because it contained awkward phrases had far more citations than downloads, which is very unusual. The post caught the attention of several sleuths who are now the authors of the JASIST article. We used a scientific search engine to look for articles citing the initial article. Google Scholar found none, but Crossref and Dimensions did find references. The difference? Google Scholar is likely to mostly rely on the article's main text to extract the references appearing in the bibliography section, whereas Crossref and Dimensions use metadata provided by publishers.
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Jul 2024 07:30:01 UTC No. 16276980
>>16276979
We wanted our results to be externally validated, so we posted our study as a preprint, informed both Crossref and Dimensions of our findings and gave them a link to the preprinted investigation. Dimensions acknowledged the illegitimate citations and confirmed that their database reflects Crossref's data. Crossref also confirmed the extra references in Retraction Watch and highlighted that this was the first time that it had been notified of such a problem in its database. The publisher, based on Crossref's investigation, has taken action to fix the problem.
To combat this practice of "sneaked references," the authors suggest several measures: rigorous verification of metadata by publishers and agencies like Crossref, independent audits to ensure data reliability, and increased transparency in managing references and citations.
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Jul 2024 11:58:31 UTC No. 16277206
>>16276979
This is a really stupid idea because citations are numbered and a computer can easily run a find function. This sort of chinkcel invention isn't going to cut it for the long term fraud institutions require to stay afloat during the competency crisis.
🗑️ Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 05:50:14 UTC No. 16278293
>>16276980
>The publisher, based on Crossref's investigation, has taken action to fix the problem.
they were willing to cheat until called out because they knew there would be no penalty for being caught cheating
Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 04:46:01 UTC No. 16279877
if i reference a paper in a thread on 4chan does the author's impact score go up?
Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 06:28:27 UTC No. 16281060
>>16279877
it goes down
Anonymous at Mon, 15 Jul 2024 04:44:51 UTC No. 16281999
>>16279877
Yes, but only until the thread 404s
Anonymous at Mon, 15 Jul 2024 06:59:45 UTC No. 16282088
>>16279877
>>16281999
Time to make a 4ch /sci/ RAG pipeline
Start adding ethereum addresses in name field and ill drip imaginary internet good boi points into your wallets
Anonymous at Mon, 15 Jul 2024 11:52:07 UTC No. 16282285
>>16282088
What type research would you like done sir? I will applied position. Best Regards.
Anonymous at Mon, 15 Jul 2024 12:32:16 UTC No. 16282317
>>16282285
Up to you saar,
If someone queries and your post is referenced you receive bonus good boy points
Anonymous at Mon, 15 Jul 2024 17:07:26 UTC No. 16282588
>>16282317
Paid per you?
ah benchod fuck your mother
Anonymous at Mon, 15 Jul 2024 17:22:04 UTC No. 16282603
>>16282588
In current LLM world you can make your response extra spicy by adding context, like a filter or magnifying glass atop the AI. A way to make these filters is called RAG. By scraping 4ch /sci/ with chromadb, langchain and a locally deployed bigscience/bloom model from hugging face ill make a bunch of these filters. I will charge a small subscription fee to access these filters, but if you append an ethereum address to the name field, you will accumulate some good boi points if i scrape your comment. Additionally if a user uses this filters and it returns your comment as a source, you will earn extra good boi points.
I meed to do this for work anyways
Anonymous at Mon, 15 Jul 2024 17:23:25 UTC No. 16282604
>>16282603
Money from scientists using these RAGs will than support content generation here
Anonymous at Tue, 16 Jul 2024 20:13:23 UTC No. 16284004
how much does it cost to buy a "sneaked reference"?
Anonymous at Thu, 18 Jul 2024 03:01:24 UTC No. 16285952
>>16284004
Depends on how desperate the buyer is
Anonymous at Fri, 19 Jul 2024 01:49:22 UTC No. 16287951
>>16276979
why is science all so completely fake and gay?
Anonymous at Fri, 19 Jul 2024 21:44:18 UTC No. 16288904
>>16287951
Affirmative action let in the non-whites, non-Christians and non-males, all of whom suffer from the narcissistic inferiority complex that causes them to feel entitled to cheat
>the rules everyone else follows don not apply to me, i'm a special unique case
Anonymous at Sat, 20 Jul 2024 20:55:01 UTC No. 16290080
>>16287951
The fact that its as fake and gay as it is explains why dishonest people are so inevitably attracted to science.
Anonymous at Sun, 21 Jul 2024 19:17:52 UTC No. 16291197
The fact that sneaked references went unnoticed for this long just goes to prove that nobody reads scientific publications, not even the scientists themselves
Anonymous at Mon, 22 Jul 2024 18:57:25 UTC No. 16292475
>>16291197
the scientists themselves are the ones who know best how fake and gay those publications are.
nobody is going to publish any useful info they discover, important new information is kept secret so the discoverers can capitalize on it financially, the only thing that ends up being published is useless trash or outright falsehoods