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Des revues de référence qui se mettent à publier en masse des articles louches et à augmenter leur frais de publication ? Au moins sept revues françaises seraient passées aux mains d’obscurs éditeurs. On vous explique 👇

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 7d

I invite @acm.org to review their articles with Tortured Phrases dbrech.irit.fr/pls/apex/f?p... (not the first time I'm doing so, here and on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/posts/guilla...)

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Raphaël Lévy @raphavisses.mastodon.top.ap.brid.gy · Sep 4

!!! 6 octobre 2025 - Amphi Weiss - 45 rue des Saint Pères - Paris !!!
15h Conférence d'Irène Frachon, lanceuse d'alerte du #mediator

suivie à 16h d'une table ronde sur la manipulation de l'information scientifique et la protection des lanceurs d'alerte (détails ci-dessous).

Photo d'Irène Frachon, credit @Maxppp - Olivier Arandel

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Sophie de Ravinel @s2rvnl.bsky.social · Sep 9

<Déroulez !>Au cœur de l’été, une alerte très relayée est arrivée des Etats-Unis. Une de plus, sur la croissance trop rapide de la fraude scientifique. Les publications vérolées augmentent « à un rythme bien supérieur à celui des publications légitimes », prévient l’Académie des sciences (PNAS).

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · Aug 25

Grateful that @lonnibesancon.bsky.social‬, @gcabanac.cpesr.fr, Cyril Labbe and Alexander Magazinov chose to donate the proceeds of their ASIS&T Best Paper Award for 2025 to the @elisabethbik.bsky.social Fund to support the work of sleuths.

More here: centerforscientificintegrity.org/our-projects...

“Sneaked references: Fabricated reference metadata distort citation counts” Chosen for 2025 Best JASIST Paper Award

The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that “Sneaked references: Fabricated reference metadata distort citation counts,” written by Lonni Besançon, Guil...

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · Aug 9

🤯 Tortured phrases in ‘ACM Computing Surveys’ a top journal in my field (JIF 28 and SJR Q1, FWIW). @acm.org tell us it's a bug in the editorial system. Did any of the reviewers recommended acceptance? Please make their reports public with the upcoming retraction notice. pubpeer.com/publications...

Tortured phrases in the article https://pubpeer.com/publications/1497EA7D4D157F282F3910AB471A1B

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · Aug 1

Once upon a time, two science journalists had an idea for a blog about retractions. And on Aug. 3, 2010, Retraction Watch launched.

And now, 15 years and 6,700 posts later, that work seems more important than ever.

Happy 15th anniversary, Retraction Watch.

Happy 15th anniversary, Retraction Watch

Once upon a time, a long time ago, two science journalists had an idea for a blog about retractions. And on Aug. 3, 2010, Retraction Watch launched, detailing in the first post why retractions matt…

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · Jul 24

Programmed electricity shutdown at my university for maintenance on Monday. Now the campus is on again.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · Jul 23

Reporter: The FDA has a new AI tool that's intended to speed up drug approvals. But several FDA employees say the new AI helper is making up studies that do not exist. One FDA employee telling us, 'Anything that you don't have time to double check is unreliable. It hallucinates confidently'

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · Jul 11

BibCheck vibes… www.istex.fr/un-autre-web...

Un autre web service autour des références citées : bibCheck

Ce web service de TDM, bibCheck, s'intéresse aux citations. Il contrôle leur présence dans Crossref et Problematic Papers Screener

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Jean Abbiateci @jeanabbiateci.bsky.social · Jul 7

« La science qui s'auto-corrige, explique @gcabanac.cpesr.fr, relève de la pensée magique ».

Entretien vidéo intéressant, engagé mais nuancé, sur les manquements à l'intégrité scientifique, à voir sur @cairninfo.bsky.social.

stm.cairn.info/comment-depo...

Comment dépolluer la science ?

Pas encore de compte ?

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COSIG @cosig.net · Jun 4

Anyone can do post-publication peer review.
Anyone can be a steward of the scientific literature.
Anyone can do forensic metascience.
Anyone can sleuth.

That's why we are launching COSIG: the Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides, an open source resource for all of the above.

cosig.net

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wytskehepkema.bsky.social @wytskehepkema.bsky.social · May 15

I presented our work at @easeeditors.bsky.social conference. We looked how visible corrections are across different platform where researchers can get their literature. Because if a paper has been corrected, the goal is that the reader actually sees the correction.

#correctionofscience

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NanoBubbles @nanobubbles.bsky.social · May 15

🎧 Get your headphones ready 👂

We are proud to announce that our podcast "Science in the Gray Zone"’ is out!

In this first season we talk about the obstacles to the self-correction of science in academia and industry from Science and Technology Studies standpoint.

open.spotify.com/show/2AuVl4w...

Science in the Gray Zone

Podcast · Nanobubbles ERC Project - Chakalaka Medialab · Science and Technology

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Luis M. Montill@ @luismmontilla.com · May 5

Have you registered for our upcoming webinar? Join @gcabanac.cpesr.fr as he dives into how the Problematic Paper Screener Tool leverages Retraction Watch #metadata via the @crossref.bsky.social REST API.

📅 Save your spot now: crossref.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Luis M. Montill@ @luismmontilla.com · Apr 30

Webinar Follow-Up: Detecting Problematic Papers with #Retraction Watch #Metadata. Join us for the next instalment in our webinar series, featuring @gcabanac.cpesr.fr (1/2)

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Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · Apr 28

It is 2025, and @elsevierconnect.bsky.social is still happily publishing AI-generated crap and asking money for this.

Come on, Elsevier, where is your commitment to publishing quality articles and book chapters?

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"9.4.4.4 Metagenomics rapid annotation using subsystem technology
Metagenomics rapid annotation using subsystem technology (MG-RAST) is an online
platform for metagenomic analysis that provides tools for data upload, annotation,
comparative analysis, and visualization of metagenomic datasets. As of my last knowledge
update in January 2022, MG-RAST is a web-based tool for metagenomic analysis."

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · Apr 17

A new journal record: Sage title retracts 678 more papers, tally over 1,500

The retraction of “a final batch” of 678 articles concludes Sage’s investigation into questionable peer review, citation manipulation, and other signs of paper mill activity at one of its journals,…

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CRESS UMR1153 @cressumr1153.bsky.social · Apr 17

Read our paper in JAMA Internal Med with a great editorial. Wonderful collaboration with @gcabanac.cpesr.fr

Retracted papers are included in meta-analyses published in HIF journal. Inclusion of the retracted studies changed
effect estimates.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Inclusion of Retracted Studies in Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of Interventions

This systematic review and meta-analysis identifies reports of systematic reviews that included retracted studies in their meta-analyses, and assesses the impact of these retracted studies on the resu...

jamanetwork.com

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · Apr 8

🫥 Withdrawn on 2099-12-31: Thank you @elsevierconnect.bsky.social for warning readers ahead of time: doi.org/10.1016/j.bj... CC @retractionwatch.com

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bjorl.2021.03.007

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Gemma Arrowsmith @mmaarrow.bsky.social · Apr 7

Haha! Love this letter from Douglas Adams to his US editor about not Americanising the text of Hitchhiker's Guide. 🐋🌸

Date: Monday, January 13, 1992, 5:26 pm
To: Byron Preiss
Dear Byron,
Thanks for the script of the novel. I don't know what happened to the
first one. It may have been a victim of the office move (see above).
I'll respond as quickly and briefly as possible.
One general point. A thing I have had said to me over and over again
whenever I've done public appearances and readings and so on in the
States is this: Please don't let anyone Americanise it! We like it the
way it is!
There are some changes in the script that simply don't make sense.
Arthur Dent is English, the setting is England, and has been in every
single manifestation of HHGG ever. The 'Horse and Groom' pub that
Arthur and Ford go to is an English pub, the 'pounds' they pay with

are English (but make it twenty pounds rather than five- inflation) So
why suddenly 'Newark' instead of 'Rickmansworth'? And
'Bloomingdales' instead of 'Marks & Spencer'? The fact that
Rickmansworth is not within the continental United States doesn't
mean that it doesn't exist! American audiences do not need to feel
disturbed by the notion that places do exist outside the US or that
people might suddenly refer to them in works of fiction. You
wouldn't, presumably, replace Ursa Minor Beta with 'Des Moines'.
There is no Bloomingdales in England, and Bloomingdales is not a
generic term for large department stores. If you feel that referring to
"Marks & Spencer' might seriously freak out Americans because they
haven't heard of it (or because Marks and Spencer owns Brooks
Brothers) we could either put warning stickers on the cover ("The text
of this book contains references to places and institutions outside the
continental United States and may cause offence to people who haven't
heard of them") or you could, I suppose, put 'Harrods', which most
people will have heard of. Or we could even take the appalling risk of
just recklessly mentioning things that people won't have heard of and
see if they survive the experience. They probably will - when people
are born they haven't heard of anything or anywhere, but seem to get
through the first few years of their lives without ill-effects.

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Observatoire des pratiques socio-numériques @opsnum.bsky.social · Apr 7

[THREAD] La saison 2025 de La Clairière des idées a officiellement démarré ! 🌳✨ Ce cycle de rencontres-débats, organisé par l'OPSN et la mairie d'Auzat, réunit les habitants et chercheurs pour échanger sur des enjeux contemporains. Retour en images sur cette belle aventure ! ⬇️

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Ioana A. Cristea @ioanaacristea.bsky.social · Apr 2

Elegant paper @Jama IM with important consequences for practice
1. Retracted study impact more the size than the direction of the effect in the meta-analysis. (expected)
However, it is clear that in meta-analyses with few studies or few events, one study can make a big difference.
#MedSky #EpiSky

Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · Apr 2

What is the impact of retracted studies being cited in systematic reviews?

Cool study in @jama.com IM

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Even cooler: ‘feet of clay’ detector from @gcabanac.cpesr.fr used here dbrech.irit.fr/pls/apex/f?p...

#MedSky #EpiSky

Inclusion of Retracted Studies in Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of Interventions

This systematic review and meta-analysis identifies reports of systematic reviews that included retracted studies in their meta-analyses, and assesses the impact of these retracted studies on the resu...

jamanetwork.com

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Ken Milne MD @thesgem.bsky.social · Apr 2

"The inclusion of retracted studies can impact the results and interpretation of reviews. Quality control measures should be implemented to prevent the dissemination of unreliable data in scientific literature." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Inclusion of Retracted Studies in Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of Interventions

This systematic review and meta-analysis identifies reports of systematic reviews that included retracted studies in their meta-analyses, and assesses the impact of these retracted studies on the resu...

jamanetwork.com

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Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · Apr 2

What is the impact of retracted studies being cited in systematic reviews?

Cool study in @jama.com IM

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Even cooler: ‘feet of clay’ detector from @gcabanac.cpesr.fr used here dbrech.irit.fr/pls/apex/f?p...

#MedSky #EpiSky

Inclusion of Retracted Studies in Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of Interventions

This systematic review and meta-analysis identifies reports of systematic reviews that included retracted studies in their meta-analyses, and assesses the impact of these retracted studies on the resu...

jamanetwork.com

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