Johannes Gierschner
@gierschner.bsky.social
Senior Research Prof. IMDEA Nanoscience Madrid
💻🧪Photophysics of Organic & Hybrid Materials
😐💪 Scientific Integrity Decline
Profile: nanoscience.imdea.org/home-en/people/item/johannes-gierschner
Website: www.uv.es/jogiers
orcid.org/0000-0001-8177-7919
💻🧪Photophysics of Organic & Hybrid Materials
😐💪 Scientific Integrity Decline
Profile: nanoscience.imdea.org/home-en/people/item/johannes-gierschner
Website: www.uv.es/jogiers
orcid.org/0000-0001-8177-7919
I think the only way out is to stop counting numbers, and to publish less but better...
November 2, 2025 at 6:44 AM
I think the only way out is to stop counting numbers, and to publish less but better...
...indeed; AI helps to hype one's paper, neglecting all the past...
And - already reality in my field - if you ask the "AImighty", who first "discovered" phenomenon xy, you get references from the 2000s, although the research is more than a hundred years old 🤨
And - already reality in my field - if you ask the "AImighty", who first "discovered" phenomenon xy, you get references from the 2000s, although the research is more than a hundred years old 🤨
October 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
...indeed; AI helps to hype one's paper, neglecting all the past...
And - already reality in my field - if you ask the "AImighty", who first "discovered" phenomenon xy, you get references from the 2000s, although the research is more than a hundred years old 🤨
And - already reality in my field - if you ask the "AImighty", who first "discovered" phenomenon xy, you get references from the 2000s, although the research is more than a hundred years old 🤨
....I agree 🙁 nevertheless, the discussion is relevant, and they reach many in the community
September 27, 2025 at 6:44 AM
....I agree 🙁 nevertheless, the discussion is relevant, and they reach many in the community
Incredible, that after already 16 retractions across various publishers and > 90 papers flagged @ pubpeer.com/search?q=Yas..., it's still the fault of all the others; read here this lengthy "defense" in 3rd-person style:
retractionwatch.com/2025/09/05/y...
#researchintegrity
retractionwatch.com/2025/09/05/y...
#researchintegrity
Iraqi university dean linked to paper mills has more than a dozen retractions
Yasser Fakri Mustafa A professor of pharmaceutical chemistry in Iraq has been steadily racking up retractions since 2022, with reasons ranging from authorship manipulation to irrelevant citations, …
retractionwatch.com
September 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Incredible, that after already 16 retractions across various publishers and > 90 papers flagged @ pubpeer.com/search?q=Yas..., it's still the fault of all the others; read here this lengthy "defense" in 3rd-person style:
retractionwatch.com/2025/09/05/y...
#researchintegrity
retractionwatch.com/2025/09/05/y...
#researchintegrity
...yes, maybe AI hallucinations, welcomed by (i) authors, (ii) reviewers & (iii) editors who don't care, if they turn science into junk, as long as it helps to increase their (i) no. of paper, (ii) citations & (iii) profit margins
August 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
...yes, maybe AI hallucinations, welcomed by (i) authors, (ii) reviewers & (iii) editors who don't care, if they turn science into junk, as long as it helps to increase their (i) no. of paper, (ii) citations & (iii) profit margins