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- Clarification 28 May 2021
The nonsensical computer-generated articles, spotted years after the problem was first seen, could lead to a wave of retractions.
Nonsensical research papers generated by a computer program are still popping up in the scientific literature many years after the problem was first seen, a study has revealed1. Some publishers have told Nature they will take down the papers, which could result in more than 200 retractions.
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Nature 594, 160-161 (2021)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01436-7
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Clarification 28 May 2021: This article has been updated to clarify a statement from IOP Publishing.
References
Cabanac, G. & Labbé, C. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24495 (2021).
Labbé, C. & Labbé, D. Scientometrics 94, 379–396 (2013)
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