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Fake Papers A Symptom Of More Serious Problems In Academia --March 26, 2014


One of the biggest stories in academia recently was the retraction of more than 120 papers http://footnote1.com/fake-papers-a-symp ... -academia/

"One of the biggest stories in academia recently was the retraction of more than 120 papers by well-known journal publishers Springer and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). The retraction followed the discovery by Dr. Cyril Labbé of Joseph Fourier University1 that all the papers in question had been generated by SCIgen, a computer program that automatically, randomly produces nonsense computer science papers." --- etc.