Professeur, Vice-recteur assoc. | EBSI-UdeM | Titulaire Chaire UNESCO sur la science ouverte, Co-titulaire Chaire sur la découvrabilité des contenus scientifiques en français | Dir. sc. Érudit | EIC Quantitative Sciences Studies
Vincent Larivière
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Two new facts stand out:
1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!)
2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect.
arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723
Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p...
Le « Big Five » : un oligopole en perte de vitesse www.acfas.ca/publications... avec @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca @simonvbellen.bsky.social @acfas.ca @chaire-dcsf.bsky.social
Découvrabilité | La domination croissante des géants de l’édition sur l’écosystème mondial de la publication savante est un fait largement documenté; cependant, l’essor récent de bases de données plus...
www.acfas.ca
I wish 2026 is the year we stop the drain that scientific publishers impose on science.
Instead of funding science, increasing shares of shrinking research budgets are funneled to publishers in exchange of.. not much.
Understand the strain: tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r
Stop the drain: tinyurl.com/3jfscscy
Well, well. A science publisher (Elsevier) decides to sue an AI firm over copyright infringement. Lawsuit with other publishers (Macmillan, Hachette etc.) vs Meta for training Llama models on copyrighted content, in Common Crawl and then from Sci-Hub among others.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
#ScientificPublishing when authors pay: journal cascading
Nature >
Nature X,Y >
Nature Progress >
Nature Progress X,Y
never shall an author go to your competitors!
Same as Springer Discover, freely inspired by MDPI:
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
We've got ISSUES. Literally.
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
New paper alert! 🤩 if you have also wondered "how multilingual is scholarly communication?", check out our work where we try to find an answer by mapping the global distribution of languages in publications and citations.
Gros merci @caropradier.bsky.social and @lariviev.bsky.social 💚
#AcademicSky
-> Advancing Diamond : A Portrait 🎥
Last April, “Advancing Diamond” brought together nearly 80 experts in scholarly publishing for two days of friendly and productive discussions.
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