Gunnar Ridderström/Pexels As a hospital librarian, Jessica Waite is typically successful at tracking down elusive articles for clinicians at Royal Hallamshire Hospital in England. So when a colleag…
“This is more complex than it may at first appear, as references can be detailed by authors in a variety of different ways, often do not include DOIs, and simple tools to identify hallucinated references can produce false positives,” Graf told us by email.
It’s not complex when you have a fucking style manual which specifies exactly how you detail references so you don’t have this kind of problem.
I was gonna say, surely there’s a database of published works you could literally query to check for validity. I mean literally traditional algorithmic verification. Why the hell would you need an AI for that. AIs are for black box problems but this has been solved way back. This tells me whoever is in charge is more concerned with optics than with things going well or they are highly incompetent.
Yeah so assuming Springer makes enough money (pretty sure they sell their copies and there’s solid money there) they are absolutely able to get those systems in place before publishing. That’s telling.
Journals have “house styles” which will specify which one to use or any modifications, but they generally follow Chicago and can specify to require control numbers/serial numbers/DOIs if they wanted to.
Not especially. I’ve worked in the field and unless you get more well-known authors with egos who don’t care to follow the requirements — and there certainly are — you grab a current style manual while working and do some due diligence. Ignorance and fame are not an excuse.
It’s not complex when you have a fucking style manual which specifies exactly how you detail references so you don’t have this kind of problem.
I was gonna say, surely there’s a database of published works you could literally query to check for validity. I mean literally traditional algorithmic verification. Why the hell would you need an AI for that. AIs are for black box problems but this has been solved way back. This tells me whoever is in charge is more concerned with optics than with things going well or they are highly incompetent.
For medical articles, there’s PubMed, the medical research database mandated by the U.S. and E.U. For other fields, YMMV.
Yeah so assuming Springer makes enough money (pretty sure they sell their copies and there’s solid money there) they are absolutely able to get those systems in place before publishing. That’s telling.
The USA has several: MLA, APA, Imrad, etc but none of them explicitly require control numbers or serial numbers from publications.
Meanwhile, I knew a guy in the UK who did a dissertation on market economies and they literally did not specify any kind of format for him at all.
Journals have “house styles” which will specify which one to use or any modifications, but they generally follow Chicago and can specify to require control numbers/serial numbers/DOIs if they wanted to.
About that, it’s kinda complicated
Not especially. I’ve worked in the field and unless you get more well-known authors with egos who don’t care to follow the requirements — and there certainly are — you grab a current style manual while working and do some due diligence. Ignorance and fame are not an excuse.