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I feel like only the highest profile journals can be trusted at this point. How long will it take academia to adapt?
You must read each paper to judge its merits. Lots of junk gets published in top ranked journals.
Some people don't have English as their native language. When such people want to write a scientific article in English they will have to use someone who can write English but probably does not know much about the research. So of course there will be articles with "Tortured Phrases".
I feel like only the highest profile journals can be trusted at this point. How long will it take academia to adapt?
Not even those! The impact factor of a journal is a terrible guide to quality. It is more appropriately thought of as a measure of scientific sex appeal. You must read each paper to judge its merits. Lots of junk gets published in top ranked journals.
Content generation was one of our bottlenecks, and as Google was already rather successful at detecting duplicate content, we were looking for a way to "uniqify" posts that would be used to stuff sites intended for googlebot, but not humans.
One of the methods that worked was taking source English content, running it through Babelfish, the Altavista translator to French, Spanish or German, and then using the same method to translate it back to English.
This resulted in texts that did not make much sense to humans, were full of precisely such "tortured phrases" but which were considered unique by Google.
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Or someone could...read the papers.
It's the classical problem of people trying to find technological solutions to social problems. If plagiarism and fake research is still a problem after we've applied technology to fight it, clearly we haven't applied enough of it.
I wish they had kept the method secret. Getting these papers retracted is less valuable than being able to secretly keep tabs on them.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/offshore-firm-accused-of-publi...