This leads all studied scientific reference databases to have incorrect references...

including the journal's own websites!! (check "This article is cited by" section for any article 1)

Article 1s have multiple std devs more citations than others, across many years and sources.

📜Wait but there is PAGE NUMBER, isn't that good?

Nope.

In online-only Springer Nature journals, ALL articles are assigned a starting page number of 1.

Also, many are assigned an Issue Number of 1 (see "number" field). Almost all these journals have only one issue per volume

Another weird thing: if we plot the citation count histograms of Nature Communications articles published on January 2nd 2025, we see the following.

The one article having about 10x the citations of other articles of the same age?

Article #1.

5️⃣/🔟 In Scientific Reports, 5 of the top 10 most cited articles have an article number of 1.

5️⃣/🔟 In Nature Communications the same: 5 of the top 10 are article 1s.

Coincidence? 👇
scirate.com/arxiv/2511.0...
I think not.

What a pleasure to teach in Gdansk at the Frontiers of Machine Learning in Quantum Technologies 2025 Summer School :)

It's a first for me, but really enjoying. Amazing students. I was lucky enough to see their flash presentations as well.

Thx and congrats to the organizers.

Of course I lost my poster along the way, so I improvised a bit :D

Man, CEQIP venue is just another level. Amazing to be here :)

not only tariffs are rising... but also number of photons ;)

We found a simple setup for nonlocality in the triangle using 2-photon sources that is ~50% robust to photon loss, vs. the ~5% that we had for single photon sources.