weberwu@HTW-Berlin.de
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 20:59:38 +0200
I am currently testing AI tools for the research process (with
dismal results, but we have just begun). I was fussing the other day
with ResearchRabbit, which is based on SemanticScholar. Just for fun
I looked myself up.
I was surprised to see as one of my top cited works a book review I
published in "Software Engineering Notes", 27(3), May 2002, pp. 94-95
being cited 110 times! I checked at the ACM Digital Library
(https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/638574.638592)
but they only had one citation there. Curious, I clicked on it:
It was a paper in Japanese about sleep disorder that quoted a paper
“Keiko Akabane. Effects of sunbathing on patients' sleep. Science of
Nursing Practice 2002; 27(1): 94-95” The “AI” was matching the volume,
year, and pages only!
I checked the list of citations to the review on Semantic Scholar and determined that they were all to the *book* that I was reviewing, not my review at all. So the reception of SEN was not *that* amazing :)
[Does this surprise you? Chatbots seem to generate fictitious research
papers. A colleague did a chapbot bio for me, which claims I was born in
1887 where my father was born, where it matched only the last name. And
three others had bios claiming they had died. I think I noted some of
that once before. PGN]