BJKS Podcast
BJKS Podcast
Benjamin James Kuper-Smith
107. Nick Wise: Publication fraud, buying authorships, and tortured phrases
2 hour 1 minutes Posted Nov 15, 2024 at 7:00 am.
How Nick got involved with publication fraud: tortured phrases
Why do people try to publish nonsense papers?
The ecosystem of fraudulent publishing
'Special' issues
How does Nick do this detective work?
What can we do about publication fraud?
There are practically no jobs to work full-time on fraud detection
A book or paper more people should read
Something Nick wishes he'd learnt sooner
Advice for PhD students/postdocs
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Nick Wise is a postdoc in fluid dynamics at Cambridge University. We talk about his 'detective work' on publication fraud which has gotten more than 800 papers retracted to date, including tortured phrases, discovering Facebook groups and Telegram channels in which people sell authorships on papers, how 'Special' issues can be exploited, and what we can do about this. BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith....