Guillaume Cabanac

@gcabanac

Associate Professor of Computer Science. Information Retrieval • Scientometrics • Meta-Research — Latest work: and

University of Toulouse, France
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Joined January 2011
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    Oct 31

    The Problematic Papers Leaderboard 🎃: 615 articles from flagship publishers tabulated in the 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘗𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳 and associated to comments. Publishers must react and investigate, especially members CC

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  2. 7 hours ago

    If you're interested in decontaminating the scientific literature, pick one of the problematic papers awaiting human (re)assessment and report back to . Thanks!

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    PubPeer post https://pubpeer.com/publications/647ACFFC2F384B0B7B40D53843C51D
    The Problematic Papers Leaderboard 🎃: 615 articles from flagship publishers tabulated in the 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘗𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳 and associated to comments. Publishers must react and investigate, especially members CC
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  3. 7 hours ago

    “Dancing for the atmosphere – how nonsense got into a renowned magazine” in by quoting and me [in NL: ]. On the problematic papers of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences

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    22 hours ago

    Of course Elsevier's "enhanced pdf viewer" tracks where you click, view, if you hide the page, etc. and then transmits a big base64 blob of events along with ID from University proxy when you leave. I'm sure straight to SciVal for sale. Is this the way we want science to work?

    Screenshot of a paper opened in elsevier's PDF view on the top, and on the bottom viewing network traffic, showing a POST request to a newrelic server with a 'pointerdown' event
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    Screenshot of a split apart URL from a request to elsevier showing a bunch of events being transmitted along with identifying information from university proxy
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    Dec 2

    What a brilliant quote from Dr Elisabeth Bik , tireless advocate for science integrity and winner of the John Maddox Prize.

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    Dec 3

    Call for Workshop & Tutorial Proposals is online: Deadline for proposals: January 19, 2022 Chairs: Hybrid conference in Cologne 🇩🇪

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  7. Dec 3

    “Black (Science) Friday” at HT a colleague who set me this. How many papers will *you* send to get APC discounts? 🙃

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    Dec 2

    Monday next week, will present at the Science Studies Colloquium, on the topic of "Intersectional inequalities in science". If you previously put this in your calendar for Wednesday, please note the change in date. Further details here:

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  9. Dec 1

    Caveat: this quote might be misattributed… Whoever voiced this should be acknowledged and I immediately thought about this as I saw the announcement of this prize 🎉

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  10. Dec 1

    “First they ignore you, then laugh at you, then they fight you then you win.” – Ghandi Science wins, thank you for your dedication and hard work Dr. Elisabeth Bik !

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    Dec 1

    Dr Elisabeth Bik has been announced as the winner of this year's John Maddox Prize, an award which recognises researchers who have shown great courage and integrity in standing up for science. Find out more about her work finding errors in research papers:

    The John Maddox Prize 2021 goes to Elisabeth Bik, , Microbiologist and Science Integrity Consultant
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    Dec 1

    Highly deserved. Congratulations to Misinformation fuelled by ‘tsunami’ of poor research, says science prize winner

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    Nov 30

    More great talks coming up... Wed 01/12 Dr Cyril Labbe on Automated assistance to screen for problematic papers, Fri 03/12 Yasunori Park on Tracking the influence of problematic papers cited by literature reviews

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    Nov 26

    Merci à et d’organiser ! La 5ème vague et le temps pluvieux ne nous ont pas empêché de parler de et de science entre raison et déraison avec !

    Rencontre avec sur le sujet de la science en temps de , entre raison et déraison lors du festival
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  15. Nov 25

    😵 CC

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    Nov 24

    It's been 8 years and I still can't get over the fact that economists would give half a thumb for an AER pub

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    Nov 24

    Over the past six and a half years, has identified more than 4,900 scientific articles containing potentially doctored images, using her eyes and memory alone.

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    Nov 24

    In developing , Paul Ginsparg has laid the foundations for a revolution in scientific as servers are now commonly used in many scientific fields. Today, the platform holds over two million scientific articles from various fields.

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    Nov 23

    Just out in , our meta-research paper led by the 2 fantastic Alexandre Scanff and with the great input of and .

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    Nov 23

    We are recruiting not 5, not 7, but 10, yes 10 PhD student positions! Have you ever wanted to become the world's leading expert in a research question so specific you'll dread having to explain it at dinner parties? Apply here!

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    Nov 22

    12th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval in Stavanger 🇳🇴 cfp is published: Deadline: April 24, 2022 Organized by:

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