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AI identifies over 1,000 fake scientific journals in US-led academic publishing study. (AI Image) A team of computer scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool designed to detect predatory scientific journals. These journals often charge authors high fees to publish research without conducting proper peer review.The AI system analysed the websites of 15,200 …

About 1,000 of a set of 15,000 open access scientific journals appear to exist mainly to extract fees from naive academics. A trio of computer scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder, Syracuse University, and China’s Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT) arrived at this figure after building a machine learning classifier to help identify “questionable” journals and then conducting a …

Summary: A new AI system developed by computer scientists automatically screens open-access journals to identify potentially predatory publications. These journals often charge high fees to publish without proper peer review, undermining scientific credibility. The AI analyzed over 15,000 journals and flagged more than 1,000 as questionable, offering researchers a scalable way to spot risks. While the system isn’t perfect, it …

A team of computer scientists led by the University of Colorado Boulder has developed a new artificial intelligence platform that automatically seeks out “questionable” scientific journals. The study, published Aug. 27 in the journal “Science Advances,” tackles an alarming trend in the world of research. Daniel Acuña, lead author of the study and associate professor in the Department of Computer …

An AI tool can screen thousands of journals, and identify ones that violate quality standards.Credit: PaulPaladin/Alamy Researchers have identified more than 1,000 potentially problematic open-access journals using an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that screened around 15,000 titles for signs of dubious publishing practices. The approach, described in Science Advances on 27 August1, could be used to help tackle the rise …

In June, Clarivate, the owner of Web of Science, released the 2025 update to the Journal Citation Reports that is described as a ‘comprehensive overview of the world’s leading and trusted academic journals’. Only those journals that have met Clarivate’s quality standards are featured and, for the first time, the release excluded citations to and from retracted content when calculating …

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The publisher Frontiers has begun retracting a batch of 122 articles across five journals after an investigation found a network of authors and editors engaged in “unethical actions” such as manipulating citations and reviewing papers without disclosing conflicts of interest.  The publisher’s research integrity team has identified more than 4,000 articles linked to the network in journals owned by seven …