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0 pointsOO000oo2y ago0 comments

Unmatched doesn’t make it qualitatively unique. It’s a problem everywhere.

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If the problem is much bigger from certain countries then I would say that qualifies as qualitatively unique.

Isn't the population of China much bigger as well? Laws of percentages and what not can go along way. Has anyone displayed a percentage of rushed/inaccurate studies between countries to see if the lines normalize?

nyolfen2y ago

i saw such a chart a few days ago, specifically for withdrawn papers -- forgive me if i can't dig it up again but china made up something like 50% of the total number

e: recollection was slightly off but it is actually much worse! https://sci-hub.ru/10.1007/s11948-017-9939-6

china is truly in a league of its own with this stuff, by literal orders of magnitude

michaelmrose2y ago

Population of researchers != Population it's more than 4x as large in terms of population but only has ~25% more researchers while having around 50x the retractions.

jldugger2y ago

> Isn't the population of China much bigger as well?

Yes, but official government stats have also been overstating the population a bit. I think it mostly affects the younger generation at present though.

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tough2y ago

If those certain countries have a very big population I'd say is more of a quantitative issue. If china had 10 scientists they couldn't pump as many papers, fake or good or not as if they're 1million scientists

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