“Up to 34% of neuroscience papers and 24% of medical papers published in 2020 were probably fake.”
A new preprint warns of nearly doubling the number of fake scientific papers in neuroscience and medicine since 2010. Do note this is before the release of e.g. ChatCPT. How did the researchers check this? In Study 1, n=215 neurology articles were manually inspected by an experienced editor; 20.5% (n=44) were deemed suspicious. A questionnaire… Read More “Up to 34% of neuroscience papers and 24% of medical papers published in 2020 were probably fake.”