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research ethics
5 posts tagged research-ethics.
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Is the paper you're reading even real?
A November 2025 Royal Society Open Science Perspective, the Stockholm Declaration, argues fake and low-quality science is now produced at industrial scale, with hundreds of thousands of paper-mill articles a year.
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How does your work end up cited on Wikipedia? Not by you.
Getting cited on Wikipedia is an AI-visibility asset, because Wikipedia is one of the most heavily weighted sources behind large language models. But you can't add your own work: self-citation is a conflict of interest. The way to get there runs through other editors.
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The most effective visibility work doesn't look like self-promotion
If self-promotion feels gauche to you, good news: the highest-payoff visibility work isn't self-promotion at all. It's discoverability infrastructure, aimed at the reader, and you can do all of it without ever bragging.
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Findability isn't spray-tweeting: the honest case for promoting your work
A 2024 randomized trial showed that tweeting your paper buys downloads, not citations. So here is the honest version of the case for promotion: be findable, don't broadcast.
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Is it ethical to use AI to promote your research?
Is it ethical to use AI to promote your research? The case that it is unethical not to — because if careful researchers stay quiet, the reckless inherit the microphone.