Re:Fake research is doubling every 1.5 years
by gus_massa on Monday September 29, 2025 @10:28PM
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> This is a huge problem because scientific literature is upstream of everything: drug discovery, clinical guidelines, and increasingly, AI training data.
Paper published in bad journals are simply ignored by serious researchers, including drug discovery and clinical guidelines.
I'm not sure about AI training, but if they don't they will have soon a nasty surprise and will have to reinvent impact factor, h-index and a few additional stupid metrics that everyone use to try to ignore all the crap that is published in bad journals (and no so bad journals).
Paper published in bad journals are simply ignored by serious researchers, including drug discovery and clinical guidelines.
I'm not sure about AI training, but if they don't they will have soon a nasty surprise and will have to reinvent impact factor, h-index and a few additional stupid metrics that everyone use to try to ignore all the crap that is published in bad journals (and no so bad journals).