Re:I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both w...
by ludicrousdispla on Friday July 31, 2026 @03:03AM
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The 'named' reviewers typically pass on the review responsibilty to grad students or less-senior colleagues. This is currently a generally accepted and sanctioned/encouraged practice. A social scoring system would need to eliminate that for true accountability.
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Re:I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both w...
by weiliddat on Friday July 31, 2026 @03:20AM
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Yeah it's a well-known secret, and I think any sort of scoring system misses the point. The scentific method (and system, incl. peer reviews) is a public good (like good governance) that requires moral acknowledgement, the necessary social/cultural/political/academic pressures, and discipline of taking care of it by participating parties.
If you add a score/metric this incentivizes the wrong thing, like how money, funding, and career already incentivizes all the wrong non-scientific behaviors (like faking data, p-hacking, etc.)
Re:I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both w...
by StableAlkyne on Friday July 31, 2026 @09:24AM
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> If you add a score/metric this incentivizes the wrong thing,
Don't we already have all of these things because academia decided to use H-index as a metric for career impact?
Re:I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both w...
by weiliddat on Friday July 31, 2026 @09:42AM
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Yeah exactly. One more metric isn't going to solve it.
Re:I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both w...
by gradstudent on Friday July 31, 2026 @05:15AM
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Reviews are typically in conjunction with junior colleagues and the senior person is involved in the discussion and held responsible for the outcome. The junior folks then end up in the proceedings as external reviewers. In my experience anyway. I don't see an issue here. How else do you train junior researchers to review? Its how I learned and all those around me as well.