Unveiling scientific articles from paper mills with provenance analysis.

ABSTRACT: The increasing prevalence of fake publications created by paper mills poses a significant challenge to maintaining scientific integrity. While integrity analysts typically rely on textual and visual clues to identify fake articles, determining which papers merit further investigation can be akin to searching for a needle in a haystack, as these fake publications have non-related authors and are published on non-related venues. To address this challenge, we developed a new methodology for provenance analysis, which automatically tracks and groups suspicious figures and documents. Our approach groups manuscripts from the same paper mill by analyzing their figures and identifying duplicated and manipulated regions. These regions are linked and organized in a provenance graph, providing eviden

SUBMITTER: Cardenuto JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11524478 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature