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In the news: December Digest
…src="/files/u7140/screen_shot_2019-12-03_at_13.16.26.png" style="float:right; height:164px; margin:3px; width:200px" />The Access to Transparent Statistics (ACTS) is a call to action for journals and funding agencies to enhance the quality of statistical reporting and an appeal to research institutions to spearhead the battle for reproducibility of results. Components of ACTS include standardisation of the contents of statistical paragraphs, making the… - News
Artificial intelligence in the news
…href="http://pubs.acs.org/journal/aelccp">suppress creativity and differentiation in writing styles, while articles on its use in Higher Education have focused on harnessing its presence as a vehicle to explore how to teach writing skills to students. On the other hand, such services… - News
Artificial intelligence and authorship
…learning in peer review was ‘predicting “meh” from noteworthy’. While it went on to amble off-topic, that one phrase certainly suggests that it is in touch with a certain zeitgeist. ‘Fluent but flaky’ as the bots might be for now, we are, essentially, faced with… - News
Allegations of Misconduct webinar summary, April 2019
…the published record. COPE recommends against banning authors from future submission due to potential legal ramifications. COPE members are encouraged to look at the COPE flowchart on “What to do if you suspect plagiarism”. As an example of in a case of egregious plagiarism, Case 12-26 Reprimanded author plagiarises… - News
In the news: June 2018 Digest
…in a top 10 economics department is 26% higher for faculty with an A-surname than a Z-surname! He argues that authors should insist on a contributorship model to determine order or a random order if people contributed equally.