Another reason to distrust journal-based citation metrics: "Suspected #papermill articles…cited – and were cited by – other suspected paper mill articles…The resulting citations…measurably inflated journal citation metrics." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #Citations #JIF #ScholComm

New @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint led by @pranujanp.bsky.social, studying errors such as incorrect primer sequences and contaminated #CellLines in #circRNA papers in high impact factor journals. We found reagent errors in 51% of n=118 circRNA papers in high IF journals in 2022 (1/4)🧪

New preprint showing that suspected paper mill papers get more citations (50 to 100% more) than non-suspect papers, but have fewer readers. This odd pattern is explainable by the mills citing their past papers in their new papers. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Suspected distortion of citations in high-impact cancer journals https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.25.727627v1

New @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint on suspected citation manipulation by #PaperMills in molecular oncology, with Baptiste Scancar, David Causer @institutagro.bsky.social & @aidybarnett.bsky.social @aushsi.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au 🙏 @nhmrc.bsky.social for💰 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

2,6 millions d'articles de cancérologie screenés... 260 000 frauduleux... 10% des papiers de recherche en cancérologie de ces dernières années sont frauduleux... Petite pensée à notre PhD grocervo qui l'avait pondu un thread pour dire que tout cela était marginal... www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Les fausses publications scientifiques menacent de submerger la recherche contre le cancer

Machine learning-based screening for publications from (often AI-boosted) paper mills feels dystopian already. But even more dystopian is the pick-up rate in cancer literature- nearly 1 in 10 papers (9.87%). Over 260,000 individual papers in all. 😱 #MedSky www.bmj.com/content/392/...

I am thrilled to announce that my first-ever paper has been published in @bmj.com. It is available here: www.bmj.com/content/392/... I thank my colleagues @aidybarnett.bsky.social, @jabyrnesci.bsky.social and David Causeur for this opportunity and their support.

Thanks so much to @baptscc.bsky.social, recently arrived here, for his brilliant work as first author on this paper (also his first publication). Follow him, he's going places!

“If fabricated studies make their way into the evidence base, they can mislead real scientists and ultimately slow progress for patients." Published in The BMJ, a new AI tool developed by @aidybarnett.bsky.social and colleagues has exposed the scale of fake studies flooding cancer research.

Congrats to @aidybarnett.bsky.social, Baptiste and team on this important #metaresearch paper. I got to see the early analysis stages of this work and have been waiting with baited breath for it to be published: www.bmj.com/content/392/...