Guillaume Cabanac   Position Full Professor Professeur des universités PhD in Computer Science Docteur en informatique   Contact guillaume.cabanac@univ-tlse3.fr   Address Université Toulouse 3 – Paul Sabatier Computer Science Department IRIT UMR 5505 CNRS • IRIS team France Institut Universitaire de France   Phone +33 (0)5 61 55 72 73   Papers Complete publication list with linked preprints or partial list on DBLP, Google Scholar, Scopus, and Dimensions.ai.   Résumé Curriculum Vitæ with links to postprint articles in Green Open Access

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New appointment: member of the Institut Universitaire de France

Read the research programme of my Chair titled Decontamination of the Scientific Literature.

The ‘Problematic Paper Screener’: flags unreliable passages in publications, supports a decentralised re-assessment of problematic papers, helps to decontaminate the scientific literature. https://t.co/fSmzEq49x9 That's my research as @InstUnivFr member. https://t.co/2cknvnOSKm

— Guillaume Cabanac (@gcabanac) July 5, 2022

New nickname: ‘Deception Sleuth’

I spoke to @gcabanac about his work uncovering fabricated papers containing "tortured phrases" -- weirdly paraphrased versions of scientific terms (like "underground creepy crawly state" for "ant colony") -- for this year's Nature's 10. https://t.co/orRmF0XtXw

— Diana Kwon (@DianaMKwon) December 15, 2021

🗞️ Just out: ‘The papers that most heavily cite retracted studies’ by @MiryamNaddaf @Richvn https://t.co/893LUO6w0X, a companion paper to my Comment: ‘Chain retraction: how to stop bad science propagating through the literature’ https://t.co/GERFzrZMzj feat. PPS Feet of Clay.

— Guillaume Cabanac ⟨here and elsewhere⟩ (@gcabanac) August 28, 2024

The Problematic Paper Screener is featured in @ScienceMagazine today ☺️, as we travel to #WCRI2024 in Athens 🇬🇷 w/ @alexcla99 https://t.co/JzaeUDbhGV HT @cathleenogrady

— Guillaume Cabanac ⟨here and elsewhere⟩ (@gcabanac) June 1, 2024

#CNRSleJournal 📰 | "Corrosif nucléique" pour "acide nucléique". "Conscience contrefaite" à la place de "intelligence artificielle"... Ce sont les expressions "torturées" que Guillaume Cabanac traque dans les publications scientifiques pour identifier ... https://t.co/idrDkihXfi

— CNRS 🌍 (@CNRS) February 18, 2022

Modern plagiarists are making use of software and perhaps even emerging AI technologies to draft articles—and they’re getting away with it. https://t.co/fBThIjRwnt

— Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (@BulletinAtomic) January 13, 2022

Parmi les 10 personnalités qui ont marqué la science en 2021, nous avons interviewé Guillaume Cabanac, enseignant-chercheur à l’université, surnommé « détective de la tromperie » par @Nature il débusque les fausses publications scientifiques #Nature10https://t.co/hWXJSAIKTI pic.twitter.com/dcYsQ2xTMT

— UT3 Paul Sabatier (@UT3PaulSabatier) January 5, 2022

« Dépolluer » la littérature scientifique : une courte vidéo pour le JT 19/20 de @F3Occitanie depuis mon bureau de l'@IutToulouse3 à @UT3PaulSabatier où j'ai accueilli @matchouv et Olivier Denoun de @France3tv. Une recherche d'@IRIToulouse. Replay à 9:20. https://t.co/A8wlj6CgPf

— Guillaume Cabanac (@gcabanac) January 8, 2022

🎬 Watch the video here.

Guillaume Cabanac, le Sisyphe de la dépollution de la science https://t.co/YsnFkHwwa5

— Le Monde (@lemondefr) August 15, 2023

Alors que les publications scientifiques américaines sont très scrutées, Guillaume Cabanac (@gcabanac), chercheur en informatique, constitue un fichier d’empreintes de fraudeurs à l’origine de parutions dangereuses. #FakeNews
Par @cdurandparenti https://t.co/aYgYC47uiz

— Le Point (@LePoint) January 15, 2024

World View: A personal take on science and society

Computer scientist @gcabanac on the best digital-hygiene routine to preserve your digital presence https://t.co/uUR4bhwnCc

— nature (@Nature) October 27, 2021

Software

▷ The Problematic Paper Screener daily screens the scientific literature for errors.

▷ The COVID19 Preprint Tracker informs Cochrane about new preprint–publication pairs.

Current Work Published as Preprints

▷ Profiled in Nature: ‘Tortured phrases’ give away fabricated research papers (Aug 5, 2021)

Just out @arxiv: “Tortured phrases: A dubious writing style emerging in science. Evidence of critical issues affecting established journals” w/ Labbé & Magazinov https://t.co/eh0YNO5T8v Probable systematic manipulation of the publication process of Microprocessors in Microsystems pic.twitter.com/vrVQUi3TNn

— Guillaume Cabanac (@gcabanac) July 15, 2021

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▷ Profiled in Nature: Errors in genetic sequences mar hundreds of studies (Aug 4, 2021)

Just out: “Human gene function publications that describe 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗱 nucleotide sequence reagents 🧬 are 𝘂𝗻𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗻𝘁 within the #genetics literature 🔬” in @biorxivpreprint w/ @JAByrneSci et al. 🇦🇺🇫🇷🇺🇸 https://t.co/El2uuHX8Ih pic.twitter.com/U95TpAjGA1

— Guillaume Cabanac (@gcabanac) August 2, 2021

Latest Published Research

🕵️ Research Integrity and Scientific Fact-checking, see:

• Scientometrics 2020, 2021a • Nature Medicine 2021 • JASIST 2021 profiled in Nature
• PubPeer posts by Seek&Blastn Operators
• The Nano Bubbles ERC Synergy 2020 project

Just out: “Prevalence of nonsensical algorithmically generated papers in the scientific literature” w/ Cyril Labbé in @JASIST https://t.co/N4wVqI8JHF. We report cases of SCIgen-generated publications. 😵 Companion website https://t.co/fSmzEq49x9 + thread: https://t.co/he2nEkzTpC pic.twitter.com/67x3XIuvFc

— Guillaume Cabanac (@gcabanac) May 26, 2021

Hundreds of nonsensical computer-generated articles, spotted years after the problem was first seen, could lead to a wave of retractions. https://t.co/u89i4315oT

— nature (@Nature) May 27, 2021

Un nouvel outil pour traquer les articles scientifiques « bidons » écrits par des logiciels https://t.co/LwF8OJps9r

— Le Monde (@lemondefr) June 16, 2021

A reader raised issues re experiments in biomedical papers... journals took quite a long time (unit: year) to react. Read more in the latest #Scientometrics paper of the SeekAndBlastn 🇦🇺🇫🇷 group w/ @JAByrneSci @Cell_Detective Cyril Labbé et al.https://t.co/b2RIw6vidQ pic.twitter.com/YaDb21ILyR

— Guillaume Cabanac (@gcabanac) March 12, 2021

Recherche : un trafic de fausses références bibliographiques découvert https://t.co/HilFChrjTA

— Le Monde Sciences (@lemonde_science) November 28, 2023

⚗️ Meta-research on COVID-19, see:

• BMC Medicine 2020
• Scientometrics 2021b and the COVID-19 Preprint Tracker

Just out: “Day-to-day discovery of preprint–publication links” in 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘴 w/ @dora_oikonomidi @BOUTRON1, an interdisciplinary research @IRIToulouse and @CRESS_U1153. Our linker informs @CovidNMA daily on #COVID19 🦠 at @CochraneFrance. https://t.co/mGExGYwh6S pic.twitter.com/tSiDJDiBhi

— Guillaume Cabanac (@gcabanac) April 18, 2021

Service

🏛️ I am serving as an Editorial Board Member for:

• 2017-present: JASIST – Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology
• 2013-present: Scientometrics

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👨‍🏫 I served as Program Chair for these workshops:

• 🇬🇧 BIR @ ECIR in March 2024, Glasgow, UK
  14th workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval
• 🇮🇪 BIR @ ECIR in April 2023, Dublin, Ireland
  13th workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval
• 🇳🇴 BIR @ ECIR in April 2022, Stavanger, Norway
  12th workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval
• 🇮🇹 BIR @ ECIR in April 2021, Luca, Italy
  11th workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval
• 🇵🇹 BIR @ ECIR in April 2020, Lisbon, Portugal
  10th workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval
• 🇩🇪 BIR @ ECIR in April 2019, Cologne, Germany
  8th workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval
• 🇫🇷 BIR @ ECIR in March 2018, Grenoble, France
  7th workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval
• 🇬🇧 BIR @ ECIR in April 2017, Aberdeen, UK
  5th workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval
• 🇫🇷 VADOR @ INFORSID in May 2017, Toulouse, France
  Atelier « Valorisation et Analyse des Données de la Recherche »
• 🇺🇸 BIRNDL @ JCDL in June 2016, Newark, USA
  1st Joint Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries
• 🇮🇹 BIR @ ECIR in March 2018, Padova, Italy
  3rd workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval

Publications

These are my topics of interest and related selected papers in English:

Scientometrics with aspects related to ...

• meta-research BMC Medicine 2020
• the Intellectual Structure of Science
  • Bibliometric Delineation of Scientific Fields Handbook of STI 2019
  • Primordial Reference Chasing Scientometrics 2018
  • Landscape of Research in Information Systems JASIST 2012
• the Geography of Science
  • Mapping the Worldwide Scientific Production At the City Scale ISSI'19
  • Dynamics of Second-tier Cities in Research Production Nature Index 2018
• the Sociology of Science
  • Dynamics of Scientific Collaborations Scientometrics 2015a
  • Solo/Collab. & M/F Academic Writing JASIST 2014 a, b • Scientometrics 2014b, 2016
  • Extracting and Quantifying Eponyms in Full-text Articles Scientometrics 2014a
  • Empirical Validation of the Partnership Ability φ-index Scientometrics 2013
  • Inter-researcher Topical and Social Similarities Scientometrics 2011
• the Psychology of Science
  • Agreement among Referees in the Peer Review Process BJET 2017
  • Academic Writing over Time Scientometrics 2015b
  • Issues of Work-life Balance Among Scholars JASIST 2013b
  • Order Effects in Paper Bids of Scientific Conferences JASIST 2013a

Information Retrieval

• Research Integrity and identification of misconduct in science JASIST 2021
• Scientific fact-checking Scientometrics 2020, 2021 • Nature Med. 2021
• Plant Sciences Phytochem. Rev. 2019 • Phytochem. 2019 • Anal. Chem. 2020
• Realtime Search TREC'11 • TREC'12a • SAC'13 • TREC'13a • Scientometrics 2021b
• Geographic IR ^★ECDL'10 • IJDL 2010b • AIRS'11 • AGILE'12 • ^★TREC'12b • TREC'13b
• Opinion Mining ACIS-ICIS'09 • SAC'10 • RIAO'10 • Soc. Netw. Anal. Min. 2013 • ECIR'16
• Evaluation: Tie-breaking Bias CLEF'10
• Usefulness of Query Operators TPDL'11

Media Studies

• French Presidential Elections and Facebook Communications 2021
• French Presidential Elections and Twitter Mobile Media and Communication 2021

Digital Libraries

• The manuscript submission process: Highs and Lows Learned Publishing 2017
• Bibliogifts at LibGen ≟ Biblioleaks + Crowdsourcing JASIST 2016
  (featured in Le Monde, The Guardian, and Rue89 in Sep. 2015 and Feb. 2016 • see also my talk)
• GeoTime-based Image Annotation with Tags OAIR'13 • SAC'14
• Personal and Collaborative Information Management DEXA'07 • IJDL 2010a
• Argumentation in Annotations & Discussions IWAC'05 • RIAO'07 • JASIST 2010
• Collaboration for Decision-making DAWAK'07

Talks

I also enjoy giving research talks — videos: Altmetrics, Scientometrics, Text & Data Mining, Research evaluation in France as per the Conseil National des Universités (CNU), and

and collecting unconventional academic papers.

A Journey in Scientometrics: quantitative studies of science at the crossroads of computer science, psychology, and sociology by Guillaume Cabanac

See also the Overview Paper of my Keynote at BIR@ECIR2015.

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I successfully defended my habilitation (« habilitation à diriger des recherches ») on December 8, 2016 :

See also the dissertation in French.

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Featured: Work on pirate libraries (e.g., LibGen & Sci-hub) providing access to the scientific literature.

JASIST 2016: Bibliogifts at LibGen ≟ Biblioleaks + Crowdsourcing   •   Open Access version

Featured in the press:

• 🇺🇸 Vice in May 2016
• 🇫🇷 Le Monde in April 2015 and March 2016
• 🇫🇷 L'Express in February 2016
• 🇫🇷 Rue 89 in September 2015 and February 2016
• 🇦🇺 The Guardian in August 2015

See also my talk: « Émergence de l’open access "gris" : LibGen et Sci-Hub comme filières clandestines de l'IST » and a brief note with references (both in French).

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Monitoring hashtag diffusion on social media is also quite amusing: #ESRenPeinture was a catharsis about academia and higher education.

Pulsations d'#ESRenPeinture : 1249 comptes Twitter illustrent l'enseignement supérieur et la recherche 🎓 par des tableaux 👩‍🎨 #crowdsourcing pic.twitter.com/O9XNpLRfDu

— Guillaume Cabanac (@gcabanac) 9 January 2017

… and #socioNoël was an Advent calendar with books and articles related to sociology.

Pulsation de #SocioNoël 🎄 ces deux dernières années : le calendrier de l'avent sociologique a un succès croissant ! https://t.co/zbZkptYHvW pic.twitter.com/2DUNw7PHE4

— Guillaume Cabanac (@gcabanac) 28 December 2016

 

 

 

Teaching

• Relational Database Conception, Implementation, and Management
  • M1 STRI - SQL and PL/SQL for Oracle DBMS
  • L3 Info - UML, OCL, SQL and PL/SQL for Oracle DBMS
  • L3 SID - Merise, SQL and PL/SQL for Oracle DBMS
  • L3 TMM - Merise, MS Access DBMS with QBE
  • L1 Info DUT - Relational DB Programming with Oracle: CM1 • CM2 • CM3 • CM4 • CM5 • CM6
  Searching and Recommending TV series with SQL by Guillaume Cabanac
• Object-Oriented Concepts and Programming   
  • L3 ISI - Advanced Java
  • L2 IUT - Object-oriented Database Systems
    
• Imperative Programming and Fundamental Algorithms
  • L1 IUT - Programming with the Compalgo IDE
• Office Application Suite
  • L3 Staps - Advanced Spreadsheet with MS Excel
  • L1 - Basic Word Processor and Spreadsheet with the Open Office suite

 

 

Programming

Some development projects for research or for fun, mostly in Java.

• Research and teaching projects
  • L'anthologie EGC
    Bibliography records of the French-speaking EGC conferences.
  • L'anthologie Inforsid
    Bibliography records of the French-speaking Inforsid conferences.
  • Series-O-Rama
    Searching, Browsing, and getting Recommendations about 126 TV series
    (e.g., 24, Californication, Dexter, True Blood)

    

  • Multifaceted Interface
    Building a Unified View of Corporate Documents

    

  • Social validation experiment
    Investigating human perception of consensus in argumentative discussions

    

  • TafAnnote Web annotation system

    

  • Compalgo: IDE for teaching programming

    

• Spare time projects
  • RegExpTester: Testing regular expressions

    

  • SynSem: Analyzing LL and LR formal grammars

    

  • Dico: A dictionnary of 403 computer science related expressions in French and English

    

  • Blaise: Learning to type quickly

    

  • Horizons: New Horizons generator (algorithm from LOGIN (107) magazine)

    

  • Snake: The famous mobile phone game

    

  • Cambridge: An applet showing the results of a Cambridge research

 

 

Miscellaneous

• Basics of research paper writing and publishing
• The Anatomy of a Research Paper
• Guidelines for Writing Scientific Papers
• Top 10 Tips for Writing a Paper , by Jim Kurose, University of Massachusetts
• Rules to Write a Good Research Paper , by Daniel Lemire, University of Quebec
• Unconventional Academic Papers
• How to typeset scientific documents properly?
  • The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX
  • French LaTeX FAQ (Grappa Team, Lille University)
  • The must-have « Petites leçons de typographie » by Jacques André (in French)
  • Authoring a thesis: a few recommendations by Nicolas Meeùs (in French)
  • About accents on capitals in French: Académie française, what happens without accents
• “Les amis de la mer” diving center, I'm a CMAS** scuba diver
• PhD Comics: a funny explanation of PhD students' daily work :)
• Local arts and crafts: Faïencerie Ribet & Bonnassies from my town, Martres-Tolosane

Don't be impressed by money, followers, degrees, and titles.
Be impressed by kindness, integrity, humility, and generosity.

— Prof. Feynman (@ProfFeynman) November 21, 2021