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most citedTortured phrases: A dubious writing style emerging in science. Evidence of critical issues affecting established journals

187 citations · 219 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.DL2025★ 1 cited

Unveiling tortured phrases in Humanities and Social Sciences

Alexandre Clausse, Fidan Badalova, Guillaume Cabanac +1

A small amount of unscrupulous people, concerned by their career prospects, resort to paper mill services to publish articles in renowned journals and conference proceedings. These…

cs.DL2022★ 6 cited

Decontamination of the scientific literature

Guillaume Cabanac

Research misconduct and frauds pollute the scientific literature. Honest errors and malevolent data fabrication, image manipulation, journal hijacking, and plagiarism passed peer r…

cs.DL2022★ 12 cited

The 'Problematic Paper Screener' automatically selects suspect publications for post-publication (re)assessment

Guillaume Cabanac, Cyril Labbé, Alexander Magazinov

Post publication assessment remains necessary to check erroneous or fraudulent scientific publications. We present an online platform, the 'Problematic Paper Screener' (https://www…

cs.DL2022★ 6 cited

Improper legitimization of hijacked journals through citations

Anna Abalkina, Guillaume Cabanac, Cyril Labbé +1

The goal is to study the prevalence of citajacked papers: papers in authentic scientific journals citing hijacked journals, in academic literature. A Citejacked detector was design…

cs.DL2021★ 187 cited

Tortured phrases: A dubious writing style emerging in science. Evidence of critical issues affecting established journals

Guillaume Cabanac, Cyril Labbé, Alexander Magazinov

Probabilistic text generators have been used to produce fake scientific papers for more than a decade. Such nonsensical papers are easily detected by both human and machine. Now mo…

cs.IR2020

ECIR 2020 Workshops: Assessing the Impact of Going Online

Sérgio Nunes, Suzanne Little, Sumit Bhatia +11

ECIR 2020 https://ecir2020.org/ was one of the many conferences affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Conference Chairs decided to keep the initially planned dates (April 14-17, 2…

cs.IR2020★ 6 cited

Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval 10th Anniversary Workshop Edition

Guillaume Cabanac, Ingo Frommholz, Philipp Mayr

The Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval workshop series (BIR) was launched at ECIR in 2014 \cite{MayrEtAl2014} and it was held at ECIR each year since then. This year we or…

cs.IR2019

Report on the 8th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR 2019)

Guillaume Cabanac, Ingo Frommholz, Philipp Mayr

The Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval workshop series (BIR) at ECIR tackled issues related to academic search, at the crossroads between Information Retrieval and Bibliom…

cs.IR2018★ 1 cited

Report on the 7th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR 2018)

Philipp Mayr, Ingo Frommholz, Guillaume Cabanac

The Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR) workshop series has started at ECIR in 2014 and serves as the annual gathering of IR researchers who address various informati…

cs.IR2017

Bibliometric-Enhanced Information Retrieval: 5th International BIR Workshop

Philipp Mayr, Ingo Frommholz, Guillaume Cabanac

Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR) workshops serve as the annual gathering of IR researchers who address various information-related tasks on scientific corpora and…

cs.IR2015

Bibliometric-Enhanced Information Retrieval: 3rd International BIR Workshop

Philipp Mayr, Ingo Frommholz, Guillaume Cabanac

The BIR workshop brings together experts in Bibliometrics and Information Retrieval. While sometimes perceived as rather loosely related, these research areas share various interes…