If you want to avoid AI Search and metadata shortcomings, you can simply full-text search on 36M works (and counting) with Matilda.
I never said anything like this, or wrote on this topic.
I have achieved the status of generic family sociologist appearing in AI slop articles to say random words. This statement now enters the great corpus of random bullshit our students will copy-paste into eternity. You're welcome.
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Let me correct this: highest fake references rate in an ELSEVIER-owned preprint site (which happened to be SSH-only when they bought it, expanded to all disciplines since then). #openscience
#EconSky: check in on your Google Scholar page. It is not ok.
Screenshot is one of three hallucinated articles I found on my profile, clearly a downstream product of someone's AI hallucinations.
This is the policy we need at every institution of higher education across faculties. Now.
An auditor for the Ontario, Canada government found that AI agents tasked with turning doctor/patient conversations into structured notes routinely hallucinated false treatments, replaced drug names with entirely different drugs, and missed crucial information
This is a must read if you want to understand how academics and academic institutions abandon their core missions, letting commercial companies thrive and create a "market" #openscience #publishers
Good luck to very talented colleagues who left MDPI publications to run a new journal. Some back story here: polecopub.hypotheses.org/3231
Philip N Cohen
matilda.science
The "predatory publisher" category raises more questions than answers. Just like "academic fraud", it tends to validate a black & white world in which rules and norms are clear-cut and universally sha...
More than 140,000 fake citations across four research repositories were identified in papers and preprints published in 2025 alone
go.nature.com/49KiNZJ
go.nature.com
Nature - More than 140,000 fake citations across four research repositories were identified in papers and preprints published in 2025 alone.
UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)."
That's what I'm talking about.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
AI scholarly search tools often miss important literature due to incomplete metadata. Better full-text-derived metadata could significantly improve discovery.
We're excited to launch J·ROR, the Journal of Research on Research.
A new open-access home for research on how research is funded, organised, conducted, communicated, and evaluated.
Our first editorial: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#ResearchOnResearch #MetaScience #OpenScience #STS
'From mission to market: a case study and analysis of the commercialisation of institutional publishing' by @alittleroad.bsky.social, @scholtom.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social & I: doi.org/10.36399/cmn...
Published in Journal of Research on Research (Vol. 1, No. 1, 2026)
www.tandfonline.com
Martin Paul Eve
Research on Research Association
[ #VeilleESR #Parcoursup ] Retrait des MEEF de la plateforme d'un côté (baisse des formations affichées), démographie de l'autre (hausse des candidatures) : les chiffres #MonMaster montrer des indicateurs contraires et hors norme.
www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/sites/defaul...
Kevin Sanders
Julien Gossa
Parution ▶️ Mon #Master : les candidatures 2026
🔹En 2026, 270 400 candidats ont confirmé au moins une candidature sur la plateforme, soit 8 % de plus que l’an passé.
🔸6 candidats sur 10 étaient inscrits en 3è année de #licence générale, de licence pro.ou de #BUT
edurl.fr/bwhNCR3D #ESR #HelloESR
