AI-generated papers and reviews are flooding major conferences and hurting trust in scientific research.
The oldest and best-known preprint repository, arXiv, has announced that it will no longer accept review or position papers in computer science. The website will make exceptions only for papers that ...
Fill a paper with gobbledygook, add some fake charts, slap on a title dense with highfalutin scientific jargon, and -- voilà!--- a highfalutin conference may actually accept it. That’s what happened ...
Peer review has met its match.
During the COVID-19 pandemic in late 2020, testing kits for the viral infection were scant in some countries. So the idea of diagnosing infection with a medical technique that was already widespread — ...
In 2020, despite the COVID pandemic, scientists authored 6 million peer-reviewed publications, a 10 percent increase compared to 2019. At first glance this big number seems like a good thing, a ...
If you are looking to pursue a career in computer science, you may have wondered what, if any, discussion exists around ethics in this field. The good news is that computer science ethics is an ...
Reading scientific papers is a tough job. It might contain language and sections that you might not understand, and not all of it would be interesting to you. My colleague Tristan is great at ...