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Chinese software that produces ready-to-publish research papers in under two hours threatens peer-review system

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Chinese software that produces ready-to-publish research papers in under two hours threatens peer-review system
Source: Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories

Scientific papers are a researcher's most valuable currency, and a paper published in a respected journal can represent several years of work. After noting a surge in citations of her work, statistician Andrea Riebler discovered a vendor in China selling a tool that enables rapid

Scientific papers are a researcher's most valuable currency, and a paper published in a respected journal can represent several years of work. After noting a surge in citations of her work, statistician Andrea Riebler discovered a vendor in China selling a tool that enables rapid paper mining of public health data. The new software allows anyone to produce ready-to-publish research papers in under two hours.

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