The Dark Side of Science

Publish, Plagiarise, Pay, or Perish


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Seek and Blastn http://scigendetection.imag.fr/TPD52/

 

SciGen: An Automatic CS Paper Generator https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/

 

"Striking similarities between publications from China describing single gene knockdown experiments in human cancer cell lines" Byrne, J.A. & Labbé, C. Scientometrics (2017) 110: 1471. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-016-2209-6

 

"How Sydney cancer scientist Jennifer Byrne became a research fraud super sleuth" Kate Aubusson https://www.smh.com.au/healthcare/how-sydney-cancer-scientist-jennifer-byrne-became-a-research-fraud-super-sleuth-20170125-gtycpw.html

 

"Prof Jennifer Byrne named as one of Nature's top ten in 2017" http://www.kidsresearch.org.au/news/prof-jennifer-byrne-named-one-natures-top-ten-2017

 

"Nature's 10" https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-017-07763-y/index.html

"For Watchdog Scientists, Using Software to Fight Dubious Cancer Research" John Power https://undark.org/article/software-byrne-cancer-research-fraud/

 

"SciDetect discovers fake scientific papers" https://phys.org/news/2015-03-scidetect-fake-scientific-papers.html

 

"China cracks down after investigation finds massive peer-review fraud" Dennis Normille https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/07/china-cracks-down-after-investigation-finds-massive-peer-review-fraud

 

"China's Publication Bazaar" Mara Hvistendahl Science  29 Nov 2013:

Vol. 342, Issue 6162, pp. 1035-1039 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.342.6162.1035 

 

Tian, M., Su, Y. and Ru, X. (2016). Perish or Publish in China: Pressures on Young Chinese Scholars to Publish in Internationally Indexed Journals. Publications, 4(2), p.9. https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/4/2/9/htm

 

"Online software spots genetic errors in cancer papers" Nicky Phillips Nature 551, 422–423 (23 November 2017) https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2017.23003 "Hoax Detecting Software spots fake papers" John Bohannon https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/03/hoax-detecting-software-spots-fake-papers

 

"The Truth about China's Cash-for-Publication Policy" Emerging Technology from the arXiv https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608266/the-truth-about-chinas-cash-for-publication-policy/

 

"Publish or impoverish: An investigation of the monetary reward system of science in China (1999-2016)" Wei Quan, Bikun Chen, Fei Shu https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1707/1707.01162.pdf "A Writer Reflects on China's Biggest Academic Scandal" Tian You, Epoch Times. https://www.theepochtimes.com/a-writer-reflects-on-chinas-biggest-academic-scandal_2251621.html

 

"China to crack down on fraud in scandal-hit scientific research amid ZTE wrangle" Zhuang Pinghui, South China Morning Post. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2148585/china-crack-down-fraud-scandal-hit-scientific-research

 

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"Anxiety" from the album ICD-10 by Kai Engel. Anxiety by Kai Engel is licensed under a Attribution License.

 

"Biology Slides" from the album "Music from the Middle Room" by Bleak House. Biology Slides by Bleak House is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License.

 

"Unknown Variables" by Anamorphic Orchestra. Unknown Variables by Anamorphic Orchestra is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.  Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://needledrop.co/fma.

 

"Inside the 'shadowy world' of China's fake science research black market" By Natasha Mitchell for Science Friction http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2018-09-13/the-fake-science-trade-inside-chinas-research-black-market/10238730

 

"Fake science peer reviews: Scandal suggests lack of credibility in Chinese academia" CGTN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAkuFrT7opY

 

 

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