Catch up with Dryad at STM Innovation & Integrity Days in London this week! Dan Edwards, our Head of Data Publishing will be in attendance. Be sure to say hello!
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At least 50 hallucinated citations found in ICLR 2026 submissions
https://gptzero.me/news/iclr-2026/
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#CRAFT-OA developed the FAIR Publishing Toolkit to help #DiamondOA publishers self-assess their data collections against the FAIR principles. Ensuring better💡discoverability of the content.
Check it out: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15783917
Diamond #OpenAccess academic publishers want to ensure their journals meet established technical standards & requirements - to be professional and in line with #FAIR principles. CRAFT-OA training materials can help.
Learn more: https://www.craft-oa.eu/trainings-workshops/
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Book recommendation! 📖
Earlier this year, Vassiliki Geka published an excellent book on Imperative-Based Dialogic Constructions and Discourse Units: https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027244918
Later this year, Journal of Pragmatics published my review of the book, which you can access freely for 50 days (now 49 days!) via this link: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1mDE41L-nhbDYW
I'm very passionate about #ConstructionGrammar taking #dialogicity seriously and this book does exactly that! 👍
This book weaves together constructions, imperatives, dialogicity, and discourse units. How can that be? This is precisely the question it sets out to answer by working at the crossroads of Construction Grammar (CxG), Corpus Linguistics (CL), and Interactional Linguistics (IL). Profiting from this cross-fertilising synergy, the book singles out BELIEVE (YOU) ME, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THINK AGAIN and MIND YOU as its objects of study, offers an empirical analysis of their properties and situates them within an entrenched and far-reaching, yet conveniently ‘camouflaged’, network of dialogic perspectivisation. In so doing, the book provides novel insights into the mental state verbal fillers of the constructions alongside their imperative-induced non-compositionality and dialogicity which motivate their function as discourse unit framing agents and, per extension, discourse operators. The book thus makes a case for CxG’s ability to go beyond its word-, or phrase-based ‘comfort zone’ and address phenomena at a micro-, meso- and macro-discourse level with across-the-board benefits.
"To conduct their study, the researchers prompted GPT-4o, a recent model from OpenAI, to generate six different literature reviews. These reviews centered on three mental health conditions chosen for their varying levels of public recognition and research coverage: major depressive disorder (a widely known and heavily researched condition), binge eating disorder (moderately known), and body dysmorphic disorder (a less-known condition with a smaller body of research). This selection allowed for a direct comparison of the AI’s performance on topics with different amounts of available information in its training data.
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After generating the reviews, the researchers methodically extracted all 176 citations provided by the AI. Each reference was painstakingly verified using multiple academic databases, including Google Scholar, Scopus, and PubMed. Citations were sorted into one of three categories: fabricated (the source did not exist), real with errors (the source existed but had incorrect details like the wrong year, volume number, or author list), or fully accurate. The team then analyzed the rates of fabrication and accuracy across the different disorders and review types.
The analysis showed that across all six reviews, nearly one-fifth of the citations, 35 out of 176, were entirely fabricated. Of the 141 citations that corresponded to real publications, almost half contained at least one error
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The rate of citation fabrication was strongly linked to the topic. For major depressive disorder, the most well-researched condition, only 6 percent of citations were fabricated. In contrast, the fabrication rate rose sharply to 28 percent for binge eating disorder and 29 percent for body dysmorphic disorder. This suggests the AI is less reliable when generating references for subjects that are less prominent in its training data."
#AI #GenerativeAI #Hallucinations #LLMs #Chatbots #Science #AcademicPublishing
A recent study warns researchers that AI models frequently invent scientific sources. These "hallucinated" citations and other errors are most common when the topic is obscure, undermining the tool's reliability for academic work.
Researchers often have to navigate cumbersome submission systems when sending their work.
#JPsyExp offers a user-friendly single portal for all submissions, minimising friction and repetition.
Submit today: https://jpsyexp.org/submit
Scientific publishing may be the biggest scam you've never heard of. A billion-dollar industry built on free labor and public money—then sold back to us at a markup. It's not just broken. It's sabotaging progress.
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Call for Assistant Editor
**Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education**
Internationally peer-reviewed, the *Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education* (JARHE), focuses on the scholarship and practice of teaching and learning and higher education.
Email patrickblessinger - at - gmail.com to submit an application.
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https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/jarhe/call-assistant-editor
The Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education is seeking an Assistant Editor. About the Journal Higher education around the world has become a major topic of discussion, debate, and controversy, as a range of political, economic, social, and technological pressures result in a myriad of changes at all levels. But the quality and quantity of critical dialogue and research and their relationship with practice remains limited.
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