SCIgen is a computer program that generates random text, reminiscent of a scientific article , containing illustrations, graphics and notes. The declared purpose: "automatically generate abstracts for conferences suspected of low admission qualification."
| SCIgen | |
|---|---|
| Type of | Text generator |
| Developer | Jeremy Stribling, Max Krohn, Dan Aguayo |
| Written on | Perl |
| operating system | Linux , FreeBSD |
| License | GNU GPL |
| Site | pdos.csail.mit.edu/scige… |
In 2005, the “article” of Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy was accepted for publication (without peer-reviewing the article) WMSCI and the authors were invited to the conference [1] . The authors talked about the hoax on their site, as a result of which the WMSCI conference lost its financial support from IEEE .
Later, “articles” created using the program were accepted for publication at IPSI-BG [2] and International Symposium of Interactive Media Design [3] conferences. A student from Iran, under the pseudonym Mosall Nejad, submitted such an article to the journal Applied Mathematics and Computation , where they accepted it, but managed to seize it before printing after explaining that it was a hoax [4] .
In 2014, Springer and IEEE alone published 120 “scientific” articles generated by SCIgen and published in their scientific journals from 2008 to 2013. Publications of the program came to 30 different scientific conferences [5] . In April 2010, the author of SCIgen generated 102 fake articles and published them on behalf of fictional author Ike Antkare. The publications got into the Google Scholar database, and the citation index for Antkar soon rose to 94 points, which made the virtual character at that time the 21st citation by scientists in the world [6] .
Uproar scandal in Russia
In September 2008, the Russian Journal of Scientific Publications of Postgraduate and Doctoral Students published a peer-reviewed article entitled “The Rooter: An Algorithm for Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy,” which is a computer translation (with some manual editing of the translation) of the English article Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy . The article was published under the name of the fictional author Mikhail Zhukov [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] . The text was sent by the staff of the newspaper Troitsky Variant , who decided to demonstrate the poor quality of the system of scientific publications and peer review. The article received the following ratings from the reviewer: “Relevance of work: high; The choice of the object of study: correct Definition of tasks and goals: logical. The novelty of the scientific material: excellent. The degree of development of the topic: sufficient. Structured work: good. Methodological value: excellent. Style of presentation: unsatisfactory. Practical Efficiency: Excellent . ” The reviewer's claims boiled down to the unscientific, in his opinion, style of individual expressions ( “The presentation style may be good for a newspaper article, not for a scientific one!” ), After their correction, the article was accepted and published [12] .
On October 17, 2008, by the decision of the Presidium of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the journal “Journal of scientific publications of graduate students and doctoral students” was excluded from the list of leading peer-reviewed scientific journals and publications in which the main scientific results of dissertations for the degree of doctor and Candidate of Sciences (the so-called “VAK List” ) [9] [13] .
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- ↑ Letter announcing the inclusion of the Rooter article in the conference program
- ↑ ア ー カ イ ブ さ れ た コ ピ ー . Date of treatment January 3, 2009. Archived December 4, 2008.
- ↑ SCIgen
- ↑ ScienceDirect - Applied Mathematics and Computation: REMOVED: Cooperative, compact algorithms for randomized algorithms
- ↑ Richard Van Noorden. Publishers withdraw more than 120 gibberish papers (Eng.) // Nature. - DOI : 10.1038 / nature.2014.14763 .
- ↑ Cyril Labbé. Ike Antkare one of the great stars in the scientific firmament // International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics Newsletter. - 2010 .-- June ( vol. 6 , no. 2 ). - P. 48-52 .
- ↑ The journal that published the pseudoscientific article is excluded from the list of the Higher Attestation Commission Lenta.ru (October 22, 2008). Date of treatment August 12, 2010. Archived March 20, 2012.
- ↑ A computer program tricked a scientific journal with the help of an uprooter . Lenta.ru (October 1, 2008). Date of treatment August 12, 2010. Archived March 20, 2012.
- ↑ 1 2 Alexander Emelyanenkov Scientifically. How, for 4.5 thousand rubles, a deliberate balcony was published in the journal // Rossiyskaya Gazeta (Federal Issue) N4782 of October 29, 2008
- ↑ Bullshit Archived on August 6, 2013. // Trinity version . Issue No. 13N (839) September 30, 2008 p. 1
- ↑ VAKovsky "Journal of scientific publications of graduate students and doctoral students" was nonsense // Polit.ru , September 30, 2008.
- ↑ Manuscript review of a scientific article: “The Rooter: An Algorithm for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy,” Mikhail Zhukov the newspaper "Troitsky option" (September 30, 2008). Date of treatment July 8, 2009. Archived March 20, 2012.
- ↑ Decision of the Presidium to exclude the journal from the List of Publications . Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Federation (October 21, 2008). Date of treatment October 14, 2011. Archived March 20, 2012.