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David Causeur

Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueORCID 0000-0001-6910-9440Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Cancer Biology· 2 Bioinformatics· 1

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Research Focus:benchmarking· 3 Approach:transformer / foundation model· 2 Approach:benchmark study· 1 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Approach:deep learning· 1 Assay:DNA methylation· 1 Approach:machine learning (classical)· 1

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Adrian Gerard BarnettiD· 2 shared Baptiste ScancariD· 2 shared Jennifer Anne ByrneiD· 2 shared Aurélia Baurès· 1 shared Elise AmblardiD· 1 shared Florent ChuffartiD· 1 shared Hugo Barbot· 1 shared Jerome F. CrosiD· 1 shared

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Cancer BiologybioRxivPreprintSep 16, 2026

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Suspected distortion of citations in high-impact cancer journals

Baptiste Scancar, Jennifer Anne Byrne, David Causeur, Adrian Gerard Barnett

Molecular oncology papers that textually resemble retracted paper mill papers receive 50 to 100% more citations yet fewer readers, cite one another, and measurably inflate some journals' citation rates.

4 citations

statistical modelmixed model

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Cancer BiologyBMJPeer-reviewedJan 29, 2026

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Revealing the Paper Mill Iceberg: AI-Based Screening of Cancer Research Publications.

Baptiste Scancar, Jennifer Anne Byrne, David Causeur, Adrian Gerard Barnett

A BERT classifier on titles and abstracts flagged 9.87% of 2.6 million cancer papers (1999 to 2024) as resembling retracted paper mill papers, with yearly shares rising past 15%.

26 citationstop 1%

deep learningtransformer / foundation model

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BioinformaticsGenome biologyPeer-reviewedDec 17, 2025

A robust workflow to benchmark deconvolution of multi-omic data

Elise Amblard, Vadim Bertrand, Hugo Barbot…·Magali Richard

This paper benchmarks deconvolution algorithms for multi-omic data, identifying their strengths and limitations across different conditions and data types.

1 citation

bulk RNA-seqDNA methylation

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