Comment on Low-quality papers based on public health data are flooding the scientific literature

DozensOfDonner@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• FundMECFS@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Professors and Researchers and Grad Students who are playing the citation/career game.

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  • hobovision@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s not new, just getting worse, huh?

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    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The motivation isn’t, but the technology to generate a slop paper is.

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      • RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Its gonna be something distopian AF, like every scientist now gets public “science scores” based on number of attributable citations and everyone now tries to game their science score so they can secure tenure.

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