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Librarian finds ‘preposterous number’ of fake references in paper from Springer Nature journal
(retractionwatch.com)
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dart board;; science bs
rule #1: be kind
I was gonna say, surely there's a database of published works you could literally query to check for validity. I mean literally traditional algorithmic verification. Why the hell would you need an AI for that. AIs are for black box problems but this has been solved way back. This tells me whoever is in charge is more concerned with optics than with things going well or they are highly incompetent.
For medical articles, there’s PubMed, the medical research database mandated by the U.S. and E.U. For other fields, YMMV.
Yeah so assuming Springer makes enough money (pretty sure they sell their copies and there's solid money there) they are absolutely able to get those systems in place before publishing. That's telling.