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May 29, 20232 min read

News Feature: Narrative CVs

May 30, 2023, #41 In a Leiden Madtrics blog post called “Narrative CVs: A New Challenge and Research Agenda" a group of authors led by...

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May 22, 20232 min read

News Feature: US Banned Books

May 23, 2023, #40 On 20 April 2023 Kasey Meehan and Jonathan Friedman wrote about “2023 Banned Books Update: Banned in the USA” in the...

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May 15, 20232 min read

News Feature: Detecting Fake Scientific Papers

May 16, 2023, #39 Jeffrey Brainard wrote in Science about how ‘Fake Scientific Papers Are Alarmingly Common; But New Tools Show Promise...

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May 1, 20232 min read

News Feature: Academic Identity Theft

May 2, 2023, #38 Ellie Kincaid wrote an article called Frankly Abusive: More Questions about the Journal That Stole an Author’s Identity¹...

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Apr 24, 20232 min read

News Feature: AI Detection

April 25, 2023, #37 ChatGPT and other AI writing tools have been in the news regularly, with widespread interest among universities in...

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Apr 16, 20232 min read

News Feature: ChatGPT as a Reviewer Tool

April 17, 2023, #36 On 5 April 2023 Jack Grove wrote an article called “ChatGPT-generated reading list sparks AI peer review debate” in...

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Apr 10, 20232 min read

News Feature: Cloned Journals

April 11, 2023, #35 A cloned journal is one that has taken over a legitimate journal’s “titles, ISSNs, and other metadata without their...

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Mar 27, 20232 min read

News Feature: Predatory Journals and Paper Mills

March 28, 2023, #34 A paper mill is a journal that publishes large numbers of papers with little quality control, while a predatory...

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