Software can make papers, but the content is full of nonsense

Software can "make" papers, but the content is "full of crap".

Simply fill in the name of the author, press the mouse, a name "SCIgen" software will randomly integrate computer and engineering terminology, to create a "nose with eyes" paper. These papers have fooled many well-known academic journals. 27th, the German publishing industry giant "Splinter" announced the deletion of its scientific journal database of 16 such false papers.

False papers deceive the real scholars, the academic circle of peer review system under pressure and questioning.

The German publishing industry giant "Splinter" February 27 announced the deletion of its scientific journal database 16 of fake paper generated by computer software.

Some well-known academic journals have also been "fooled", published by the same software generated false papers.

False papers deceive the real scholars, the academic circle of peer review system under pressure and questioning.

"It's all nonsense."

A statement from the press, published 27th, said it would delete some bogus papers on computer science and engineering. The bogus papers were submitted to some academic seminars from 2008 to 2013, some of which were published in a number of professional journals.

The statement said: "We are getting off the shelves as soon as possible ... This means that they will be deleted, not revoked, because the writing is nonsense. ”

"We will investigate (publish) procedures, look for weak links and take measures to prevent similar incidents from happening again," he said. "said the statement.

Siril Labes, a computer scholar at Joseph Fouri University in France, found these fake papers. He says more than 100 fake papers have been produced in the Journal of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic engineers, which has been cheated by the fake papers.

The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers stated that the academy had previously been told that "some of the seminar papers published in the Institute's electronic library may not be standard". "We take immediate steps to remove these papers and improve our procedures to prevent future publication of substandard papers," he said. ”

Peer review System challenged

Rabe says the false papers have hit the credibility of peer reviews.

Before the publication of the paper, the editors of academic journals usually invite peer scholars with certain attainments in the professional field to review the academic and quality of the papers, and the editors decide whether to publish according to the results of the reviews.

One may be "testing" the peer-review system, says Rabe, "but if so, they should be able to show their identity, saying they have no academic fraud", and "another is to deliberately cheat money".

Korean courts maintain conviction for fake professors

On the same day that Splinter press announced the deletion of the fake paper, the Grand Court of Korea, the Supreme Court, upheld the original verdict that the former Seoul University Professor Hwang was imprisoned for 1.5 and suspended for two years. Hwang, who published a bogus paper in the US journal Science in 2005, claimed to have nurtured the world's first cloned human embryonic stem cell. In December of that year, he was exposed to a number of forged research results, South Korea's nationwide uproar.

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The fake papers were generated by software "SCIgen", AFP reported. MIT researchers in the United States wrote the software for 2005 years.

The software simply fills in the name of the author, presses the mouse, and the software randomly integrates computer and engineering terminology, creating a "nose-eyed" paper that contains charts and quotations, and the contents of the paper are "meaningless" and "full of nonsense".

Computer scholar Rabe is currently studying how to discriminate the fake paper generated by this software. Rabe said that counterfeiters sometimes modify the lead and conclusions of the generation of papers, making false papers more likely to "cheat" people.

Rabe has used "SCIgen" to do experiments, cheated many scholars.

He made 102 false papers using the software for 2010 years and uploaded them to the Google Academic Search website, which was named "Ick Antecal" under a pseudonym.

Rabe said, "Ick Antecal" unexpectedly boarded the most cited scientists list, once ranked 21, higher than the 36th place Albert Einstein.